FPGAs: World Class Designs

Chapter 11. Ladder and Functional Block Programming

This (and the following) chapter comes from the book Programmable Logic Controllers by W. Bolton, ISBN: 9780750681124. The first edition of the book was published in 1996, which explains why the author commences the preface by saying: “Technological advances in recent years have resulted in the development of the programmable logic controller (PLC) and a consequential revolution of control engineering.” (Don't worry; the chapter presented here is from the fourth edition in 2006.)The thing is that this is something of a timeless subject, so this book provides a very useful introduction to programmable logic controllers and aims to ease the tasks of practicing engineers coming first into contact ...