Support for PN-EN 61131-3 Standard Data Types in ARM Architecture with Memory Access Restrictions

Abstract

The article presents the results of research on the handling of data types from the PN-EN 61131-3 standard in systems with ARM architecture. The tests were carried out on several different hardware platforms with the Cortex-M and Cortex-A series as CPUs. The research was carried out on the basis of the CPDev environment for creating and running control software. Due to the limitations of the ARM architecture, three methods of access to memory have been developed, and the results allow to determine the most effective. The article also presents the proposed virtual machine extension with new instructions to make data operations in ARM solutions more efficient.