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Quickstep™ State Language Programming Software
Rapidly moving your project from an idea to a highly
integrated, world-class control system is the goal of Quickstep for Windows.
Using Quickstep state language, your machine design team can program, debug,
and tune the performance of your automated equipment in less time than ever
before. Quickstep combines a clear language structure, a simple programming
interface, and powerful diagnostic tools to enable you to respond quickly
to new automation demands. The point-and-click simplicity of the Quickstep
editor reduces training requirements, while state language programming makes
your programs understandable to all members of your design and operating
team. Operating in the familiar Windows environment, Quickstep is the best
and easiest solution for automated equipment programming.
- Accelerated and intuitive program development
Quickstep provides a language structure that
emulates the way the designer thinks about a machine. The flow-diagram
structure of the Quickstep state language ensures you that the time
elapsed from Quickstep programming to trouble-free operation is substantially
reduced.
- Efficient and easy-to-use programming interface
Quickstep enables you to create a program
with a series of point-and-click selections of instructions or instruction
parameters – no error-prone typing or tedious menus. Since Quickstep
enters the instructions, syntax errors are virtually eliminated.
- Powerful real-time diagnostics and monitoring
Debugging is simplified with easily understood
status displays and high-level error explanations, plus you can adjust
many values while your machine runs, greatly reducing the time required
to perfect your program. The dynamic display of internal resources as
well as the ability to dynamically tune a machine’s performance make
Quickstep an unbeatable diagnostic and monitoring tool.
Clear state language programming
The Quickstep state language emulates the way a designer views a machine and designs an automation program. Quickstep programs are composed of steps, similar to the blocks of a flow diagram. Each step is given a meaningful name, and has the ability to change output states, monitor inputs, make decisions and perform other automation functions. Quickstep programs are composed of sequences of these steps.
A Quickstep programming step is divided into four sections: the Step Name section, the Comments section, the Output section, and the Statements section.
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Simplifies complex tasks
When programming complex machines, you can use multitasking to split up your program into several independent tasks. Up to 84 tasks may be run simultaneously, each operating completely asynchronously, as though a separate controller were executing each program. Tasks may intercommunicate, however, using any of the controller's shared resources: numeric registers, flags, etc. This modular approach to development helps clarify your programs and simplifies debugging and maintenance. |
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Customizing your program
The Symbol Browser enables you to create a symbolic name for every controller resource you use in your Quickstep program. These include inputs, outputs, registers, flags, analog points, servos and others. Resources are then accessed by name in your program, making it virtually self-documenting. This simplifies writing your program, as well as debugging, maintaining, and communicating it to others.
You can also use the Symbol Browser to perform a global update of the resource value assigned to a symbolic name, eliminating the nightmare of editing a program when I/O lists change during development.
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Last site update May, 2009
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