JPH06175709A - Programming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify an input operation and to improve the programming efficiency by facilitating the conversion of the input operation into an operational instruction. CONSTITUTION:The control block diagram shown at a display part 33 is scanned by an operation input part 31, and the operation input information is converted into an operational instruction by an operation input/operational instruction converting part 34. Meanwhile, plural data are arrayed and used for input/output of the control block diagram. An operation block included in the control block diagram gives instructions to carry out the same operation to plural data of the same type, to separate some data from the arrayed one to calculate them, or to execute the mutual operations among the arrayed data. Therefore, an large quantity of similar processings can be easily programmed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a programming device for creating a computer program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 13 shows, for example, Japanese Patent Application Publication No. Sho 64-8.
It is a logic circuit diagram displayed on the display part of the conventional programming apparatus shown by No. 361. Further, FIG. 15 shows a key layout of the key input unit used to create the display unit of FIG. FIG. 14 is a block diagram of this conventional programming device, in which 141 is a key input unit, and 14 is a key input unit.
Reference numeral 2 is a key input storage unit, 143 is a display unit, 144 is a key input / sequence command conversion unit, 145 is a sequence command storage unit, and 146 is a sequence command / key input conversion unit.

Next, the operation will be described. A logic circuit diagram created by the keys shown in FIG. 15 is divided into an input section, a branch section, a logical operation section, and an exit section as shown in FIG. Here, as shown in FIG. 16, the logical operation unit calculates the logical product (A
It has functions such as ND), logical sum (OR), and negation (NOT). The logic circuit diagrams for these functions are stored in the key input storage unit 142 of FIG. 14, and the key input / sequence command conversion unit 144 causes the sequence command storage unit 145 to operate based on the command conversion rules showing the relationship between the logic circuit diagram of FIG. 16 and the functions. Stored in. At this time, the processing sequence of the operations is automatically determined as shown in FIG. 17, such as "input, branch, logic, branch, logic, ..., Branch, logic, branch, output".

[0004]

Since the conventional programming device is configured as described above, the input / output is 1
It is one digital signal information or one analog signal information, and the arithmetic processing must also specify one for each input or one input, and the same input operation cannot be specified continuously. However, there is a problem in that a plurality of types of signal information are collectively input and a plurality of calculations or complicated calculations cannot be specified internally.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and it is possible to specify a plurality of operations or complicated operations and facilitate conversion of input operations into operation instructions.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a programming device that simplifies input operations and improves programming efficiency.

[0006]

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an operation input unit 31 capable of inputting an instruction to execute a plurality of operations on arrayed data in which a plurality of data are arrayed. And a control block diagram B1 corresponding to the operation input information input from the operation input unit 31.
And the like, and a conversion unit 34 for converting the operation input information into an operation command by scanning the displayed control block diagram B1 with the operation input unit 31.

According to another aspect of the programming device of the present invention,
Pre-defined operation blocks 14 and 15 for arrayed data
Used as input / output in.

According to another aspect of the programming apparatus of the present invention,
The control block diagram B3 is provided with a calculation block 71 for instructing the same calculation for a plurality of similar data.

According to another aspect of the programming apparatus of the present invention,
The control block diagram B4 is provided with a calculation block 91 for instructing the same calculation for arrayed same-type data.

According to another aspect of the programming apparatus of the present invention,
A control block diagram B5 is provided with a calculation block 101 for separating and calculating only a part of data from the arrayed data.

According to another aspect of the programming apparatus of the present invention,
The control block diagram B6 is provided with a calculation block 111 for instructing the same calculation for a plurality of sets of array data.

A programming device according to a seventh aspect of the present invention is
A control block diagram B7 is provided with a calculation block 121 for instructing the calculation of arrayed data.

[0013]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the operation input section 31 issues an input instruction for executing a plurality of operations on the arrayed data, the control block diagram B1 corresponding to the operation input information is displayed on the display section 33. Is displayed. The displayed control block diagram B1 is scanned by the operation input unit 31 and converted into an operation command by the conversion unit 34.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the arrayed data is used as an input / output in the predefined operation blocks 14 and 15.

In the third aspect of the present invention, the control block diagram B3 is provided with an operation block 71 for instructing the same operation on a plurality of data of the same type.

According to the fourth aspect of the invention, in the control block diagram B4, there is provided an operation block 91 for instructing the same operation on the arranged similar data.

In the sixth aspect of the present invention, the control block diagram B5 is provided with an operation block 101 for separating and operating only a part of the data from the arrayed data.

In the seventh aspect of the present invention, the control block diagram B7 is provided with an operation block 121 for instructing the operation of arrayed data.

[0019]

【Example】

Example 1 (corresponding to claim 1). FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the programming device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 31 is an operation input unit that can also input an instruction to execute a plurality of operations on arrayed data in which a plurality of data is arranged, and 33 is operation input information input from the operation input unit 31. 32, which displays a control block diagram or the like corresponding to
Is an operation input storage unit for storing the operation input information from the operation input unit 31, and 34 is an operation for converting the operation input information into a calculation command by scanning the control block diagram displayed on the display unit 33 with the operation input unit 31. Input / arithmetic instruction conversion unit, 35
Is an operation command storage unit that stores the operation commands converted by the operation input / operation command conversion unit 34. The operation input unit 31
Is realized with a keyboard and mouse.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in the first embodiment. In FIG. 1, B1 is the display unit 33.
3 is a control block diagram displayed on the screen of FIG. This control block diagram B1 includes an input unit 11, a logical operation unit 12, and an output unit 13.
Consists of. The input unit 11 uses a plurality of data (IW0001,
IW0002, IW0003, IW0004, IW00
05, IW0006, etc.) is input. The logical operation unit 12 has operation blocks 14 and 15 that logically operate the arrayed data from the input unit 11. The operation block 14 is macro-defined to perform addition and multiplication operations on input data. The output unit 13 outputs data (MW0) obtained as a result of calculation in the calculation blocks 14 and 15.
001, MW0002, etc.) is output.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining symbols of operations used in the operation blocks 14 and 15 of the logical operation unit 12 in the control block diagram B1 and includes logical product, logical sum, negation,
Symbols indicating addition, multiplication, and signal switching are respectively shown.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a processing method for converting an input operation into a calculation instruction in the first embodiment. The operation of the first embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS.

The first embodiment is a macro definition of a normal control operation and its use. Conversion into operation instructions in the operation input / operation instruction conversion unit 34 basically proceeds from top to bottom and from right to left as shown in FIG. 4 similarly to the operation order of FIG. 17 described in the conventional example. . First, the input unit 11 in the control block diagram B1 displayed on the screen of the display unit 33 is replaced with the operation input unit 31.
Scan vertically from top to bottom and convert to input processing. Next, the operation block 14 surrounded by a broken line is recognized, and it is further determined whether or not operation processing is described in the operation block 14. If it is described, it is determined to be a macro definition, and the calculation content is stored in a macro processing method storage unit (not shown).
Further, the contents of the calculation are expanded (converted) into a calculation instruction and the next scanning is performed. Also in the next scan, the calculation block 15 surrounded by a broken line
However, since there is no description of the arithmetic processing inside, it is recognized that the macro is used, and the macro definition corresponding to the macro number (M01) is searched from the macro processing method storage unit and expanded (converted) into the arithmetic instruction. Finally, the processing of the output unit 13 is also expanded from top to bottom.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the process of FIG. In FIG. 5, in step 51, the input unit 11 is scanned and converted into input processing. In step 52, it is determined whether the operation input indicates a normal operation or the macro definition. In step 53, it is determined whether the operation block is a macro definition or a macro use. In step 54, the macro definition is processed,
The contents of calculation in the calculation block are stored in the macro processing method storage unit. In step 55, the operation contents of step 54 are converted into operation instructions and stored in the operation instruction storage section 35. In step 56, the macro processing method storage unit is searched for the operation contents of the macro definition already stored when the macro is used. In step 57, the operation contents found in step 56 are converted into operation instructions and stored in the operation instruction storage section 35. In step 58, the operation input information indicating a normal operation is converted into an operation command. In step 59, it is determined whether or not the processing for the logical operation unit 12 is completed. In step 60, the output unit 13 is scanned and converted into output processing.

Embodiment 2 (corresponding to claim 2). Although a single analog value is used as the input and output data in the first embodiment, arrayed data obtained by arraying a plurality of data is input / output in a pre-defined operation block.
Example 2 used as an output will be described. FIG. 6 is a control block diagram B2 in which input / output is expressed using arrayed data. In this expression method, the arrayed data has a predetermined structure, and it is necessary for the operation in the operation block to express which number of data of the arrayed data is input and which is output. . 6 in FIG.
Reference numeral 1 is an operation block representing a macro definition for arrayed data. The macro definition describes on the left side in the operation block 61 which data in the array is used as input (1, 2, 3, 6, 7 in the figure), and the data used as output on the right side is what the array is. The first (6 in the figure) is described.

In the second embodiment, since the arrayed data is used as the input and output, it is possible to express in an area considerably smaller than the display area required for definition, as in the macro use expression in FIG. This has the effect of increasing the degree. Also, careless mistakes when using single values individually can be significantly reduced by using arrays. When the number of operations in the operation block (macro definition) increases, the above effect becomes greater.

Embodiment 3 (corresponding to claim 3). In the first and second embodiments described above, a plurality of operation instructions for a plurality of inputs are shown in the form of "macro", but as the third embodiment, for example, the same operation may be individually performed on the same type of input data. In the third embodiment, the control block diagram is provided with an operation block for instructing the same operation for a plurality of same-type data. FIG. 7 is an example display screen showing a control block diagram B3 of the third embodiment. FIG. 7 shows that the arithmetic block 71 surrounded by the one-dot chain line performs common processing for each input data. In this example, the operation block 71 performs a negative logic operation on the input data I0001 and stores it in the output data M0001, and a negative logic operation on the input data I0002 and stores it in the output data M0002.
The same processing can be applied to a large number of input / output data with a single negative operation instruction.

Next, the operation of the third embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In step 81, the input section 11 (see FIG. 7) is scanned and converted into input processing. In step 82, the operation block 71 of the logical operation unit 12 is scanned and recognized to determine whether or not the operation element is common processing. In the case of common processing, the number of input elements a of the common processing operation is obtained in step 83, and the number of output elements b is also obtained in step 84. In step 85, the number of inputs c to be entered into the common processing
And the number of conversions c / a based on the number of input elements a, or the number of outputs d that enters common processing and the number of conversions d based on the number of output elements b.
Find / b. In step 86, the conversion to the operation command for the input and the output is repeated by the number of times of conversion calculated above. In step 87, the input other than the common processing is converted into an operation instruction. In step 88, the logical operation unit 1
It is determined whether the process 2 (see FIG. 7) is completed.
In step 89, the output unit 13 is scanned and converted into output processing.

According to the third embodiment, by performing the input operation for instructing the same operation on a plurality of data of the same type, there is an effect that the input operation when performing the same operation processing can be significantly reduced.

Embodiment 4 (corresponding to claim 4). In the third embodiment, an example in which common processing is performed on individual single data has been shown, but as a fourth embodiment, FIG. 9 shows common processing for all elements of arrayed data (for example, processing divided by 2).
The example of a display screen in the case of performing is shown. In the fourth embodiment, the control block diagram B4 is provided with a calculation block 91 for instructing the same calculation on the arranged similar data. In this case, the data implicitly forming the array are all of the same type, for example, analog data of all words or digital data of bytes. The operation block 91 performs common operation processing (division) on each piece of arrayed data.

By carrying out the processing as described above, there is an effect that common processing such as first-order lag filtering processing and square root processing can be carried out on one display screen for analog signals of all process inputs. .

Embodiment 5 (corresponding to claim 5). In the first, second, third, and fourth embodiments described above, a single signal or predetermined arrayed data is used as an input, but in the fifth embodiment, arrayed data is created from a single signal or arrayed. A method of decomposing the digitized data into a single data is explained.
FIG. 10 is a display screen of an example in which a single signal is converted into arrayed data and an example in which a process of decomposing a part of the arrayed data into single data and specifying the processing is specified. Operation blocks 101 and 102 are provided in the control block diagram B5. The operation symbols "ARY" and "UAY" in this screen indicate the arraying process and the array releasing process, respectively. The operation block 101 performs an array process, and the operation block 102 performs an array release process. The arrayed data defines the array of elements of the array by an arraying process (ARY), and is stored in an array definition area (not shown). For example, the array MA0001 has 6 elements and the first byte, byte, word, byte, byte,
The array of bytes is stored in the array definition area. In the UAY array release processing of the operation block 102, the storage data of the array definition area (not shown) (in this example, the number of elements of the array MA0002 and the array) are arranged.
Is used to store the seventh element data in the single signal data.

By doing so, a new effect can be produced in which the macro conversion and the ingenuity at the creator level of the array macro generated in the process of generating the control logic can be absorbed and the programming efficiency can be further improved.

Embodiment 6 (corresponding to claim 6). In the third embodiment, the input and output are single digital signals, but the arrangement as described in the second embodiment may be used. As Example 6, FIG. 11 shows an example of a display screen when common arithmetic processing is performed on arrayed inputs and outputs. In the sixth embodiment, a control block diagram B6 of a calculation block 111, which is performed by instructing the same calculation on a plurality of sets of arrayed data,
It is provided in. The method of instructing which data of the input array / output array in the case of the sixth embodiment is to be operated is the same as in the second embodiment.

In the sixth embodiment, the effects of both the second and third embodiments can be expected. In the second embodiment, since the macros are individually designated, the macro name can be designated for the processing on the display screens other than that shown in FIG. 6, and the usage processing can be performed. As shown, common processing can be specified more easily without specifying macroization. Further, when there are a plurality of operations and the number of input / output of the operation processing increases, the method of the third embodiment reduces the common processing to be specified on one screen, and the input / output signal specification is likely to be erroneous. Although there is a drawback, by using the sixth embodiment, it is possible to specify a large number of common processes on one screen and further prevent an input operation error.

Embodiment 7 (corresponding to claim 7). In the above columns, the individual values of the arrayed data are input and output, but the operations of the arrayed data may be performed. As the seventh embodiment, FIG. 12 is an example of a display screen when the operations of arrayed data are performed. This Example 7 is
A control block 121 is provided in the control block diagram B7 with a calculation block 121 for designating calculations of arrayed data. In the seventh embodiment, the product of the respective data is obtained, but the values may be compared or matrix calculation may be performed.

By thus performing the arithmetic operation of the arrayed data, the arithmetic operation of the data group in a predetermined manner, for example, temperature correction of pressure data, bias addition at the process exit, communication data and character data from the keyboard is performed. The effect is that it can be applied to a wide range of data processing such as digitization. In addition, by using the operations of the arrayed data for macro processing and common processing, there is an effect that a larger amount of data processing can be realized with fewer steps and fewer errors.

In short, the programming device described above is used as a program expression means in addition to the conventional non-pluralized input / output, arrayed data, creation of arrayed data, disassembly of arrayed data, and the same operation. Continuous execution,
A means for controlling execution / non-execution according to input data is provided.

Therefore, since the programming device can perform an operation on the arrayed data, it becomes possible to perform processing which cannot be handled by the conventional programming device, such as comparison of character strings, time value and file comparison.
Further, by continuously executing the same operation, it is possible to improve the programming efficiency such that a large number of operations can be collectively instructed by one expression.

[0040]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1,
By scanning the control block diagram displayed on the operation input unit and the operation input unit, which can input an instruction to execute a plurality of operations on arrayed data in which a plurality of data is arranged, by scanning the operation input unit. Since it is configured with a conversion unit that converts into an operation instruction, it is possible to easily convert from an input operation into an operation instruction, which allows programming of a plurality of operations for arrayed data in which a plurality of data is arranged. The effect is that it can be done efficiently, and mistakes in input operations during programming can be reduced.

According to the invention of claim 2, in addition to the configuration of claim 1, the arrayed data is used as an input / output in a pre-defined arithmetic block, so that the same effect as in claim 1 is obtained. In addition to being able to handle arrayed data, it can be applied to the processing of communication data, screen display data, file data, etc. existing as arrayed data, and improve the function of the control device itself operated by the control program. The effect that can be obtained is also obtained.

According to the invention of claim 3, in addition to the structure of claim 1, an operation block for instructing the same operation for a plurality of the same type of data is provided in the control block diagram. In addition to the same effect as 1, the same operation can be instructed for a plurality of same-type data, and the effect of improving programming efficiency is also obtained.

According to the invention of claim 4, in addition to the structure of claim 1, the control block diagram is provided with an operation block for instructing the same operation for arrayed same-type data. In addition to the same effect as the first aspect, the same operation can be instructed to the arrayed same type data, and the effect of improving the programming efficiency is also obtained.

According to the invention of claim 5, in addition to the structure of claim 1, an arithmetic block for separating and operating only a part of the data from the arrayed data is provided in the control block diagram. In addition to the same effect as that of the first aspect, only a part of the data can be separated from the arrayed data to be operated, and the efficiency of programming can be improved.

According to the invention of claim 6, in addition to the structure of claim 1, an arithmetic block for instructing the same arithmetic operation for a plurality of sets of arrayed data is provided in the control block diagram. In addition to the same effect as the first aspect, it is possible to instruct the same operation for a plurality of sets of arrayed data, which can further reduce an input operation error during programming.

According to the invention of claim 7, in addition to the structure of claim 1, an arithmetic block for instructing the arithmetic operation of arrayed data is provided in the control block diagram. In addition to obtaining the same effect as 1, it is possible to instruct the operation of arrayed data, thereby obtaining an effect that a large amount of data processing can be programmed with a small number of steps and a small number of errors.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of symbols of operations used in the operation block of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a programming device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a processing method for converting an input operation into an arithmetic instruction in the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the process described in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in Embodiment 3 of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a process of converting an input operation into an operation command in the third embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in Embodiment 4 of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in Embodiment 7 of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a conventional programming device.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram of a conventional programming device.

FIG. 15 is a key layout diagram of a conventional programming device.

FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram of logical symbols of a conventional programming device.

FIG. 17 is an explanatory diagram of a screen calculation order of a conventional programming device.

[Explanation of symbols]

31 Operation Input Unit 33 Display Unit 34 Operation Input / Arithmetic Command Converter B1, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7 Control Block Diagram 14, 15, 61, 71, 91, 101, 102, 11
1,121 Operation block

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A programming device that creates a control block diagram centering on input / output data and operations on the data, and creates a control program based on the control block diagram, and arranges a plurality of data in an array. An operation input unit that can also input an instruction to execute a plurality of calculations on data, a display unit that displays a control block diagram or the like corresponding to the operation input information input from the operation input unit, and the above display And a conversion unit for converting the operation input information into a calculation command by scanning the generated control block diagram with the operation input unit. 2. A programming device that creates a control block diagram centering on input / output data and operations on the data, and creates a control program based on the control block diagram, and arranges a plurality of data into an array. An operation input unit that can also input an instruction to execute a plurality of calculations on data, a display unit that displays a control block diagram or the like corresponding to the operation input information input from the operation input unit, and the above display A control unit for converting the operation input information into an operation command by scanning the generated control block diagram with the operation input unit, and using the arrayed data as input / output in a pre-defined operation block. Characteristic programming device. 3. A programming device for creating a control block diagram centering on input / output data and operations on the data, and creating a control program based on the control block diagram. An operation input unit that can also input an instruction to execute a plurality of calculations on data, a display unit that displays a control block diagram or the like corresponding to the operation input information input from the operation input unit, and the above display The control block is a calculation block including a conversion unit for converting the operation input information into an operation command by scanning the generated control block diagram with the operation input unit. A programming device characterized by being provided in the figure. 4. A programming device that creates a control block diagram centering on input / output data and operations on the data, and creates a control program based on the control block diagram, and arranges a plurality of data in an array. An operation input unit that can also input an instruction to execute a plurality of calculations on data, a display unit that displays a control block diagram or the like corresponding to the operation input information input from the operation input unit, and the above display And a conversion unit for converting the operation input information into an operation command by scanning the generated control block diagram with the operation input unit. A programming device characterized by being provided in a control block diagram. 5. A programming device that creates a control block diagram centering on input / output data and operations on the data, and creates a control program based on the control block diagram, and arranges a plurality of data in an array. An operation input unit that can also input an instruction to execute a plurality of calculations on data, a display unit that displays a control block diagram or the like corresponding to the operation input information input from the operation input unit, and the above display An operation block including a conversion unit that converts the operation input information into operation instructions by scanning the generated control block diagram with the operation input unit, and operates by separating only a part of the data from the arrayed data. Is provided in the control block diagram. 6. A programming device for creating a control block diagram centering on input / output data and operations on the data, and creating a control program based on the control block diagram, in which a plurality of data are arranged in an array. An operation input unit that can also input an instruction to execute a plurality of calculations on data, a display unit that displays a control block diagram or the like corresponding to the operation input information input from the operation input unit, and the above display A control block for scanning the generated control block diagram with the operation input section to convert the operation input information into an operation command, and the operation block for instructing the same operation on a plurality of sets of arrayed data is executed. A programming device characterized by being provided in a control block diagram. 7. A programming device for creating a control block diagram centering on input / output data and operations on the data, and creating a control program based on the control block diagram, in which a plurality of data are arranged in an array. An operation input unit that can also input an instruction to execute a plurality of calculations on data, a display unit that displays a control block diagram or the like corresponding to the operation input information input from the operation input unit, and the above display A control block for converting the operation input information into an operation command by scanning the generated control block diagram with the operation input part, and instructing the operation of arrayed data. A programming device characterized by being provided in the figure.