Automation apparatus with single-step test

Abstract

Abstract In automation devices (1) having a standard processor (3) and having a compiler (8), the latter translates a user program present in machine code into the machine language of the standard processor (3) for the purpose of fast processing. The standard processor (3) runs through the user program. To test the program, the machine code has previously been interpretatively processed by the standard processor with corresponding time consumption. The much faster instruction-granular on-line test in machine code is possible by providing a memory for storing test information which contains the correlation between the addresses of each instruction in machine code with the addresses of the corresponding instructions in the machine language of the standard processor (3) for the area of the user program to be tested. Furthermore, means (5) are provided for interrupting the program sequence.

Inventors

• 👤 Georg Dipl.-Ing. Trummer (Fh)

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