SimInTech software for programming control-system devices

One of the fundamental and complex problems of designing a nuclear power plant is developing a control system that incorporates many concurrently operating subsystems. The main direction for increasing the quality of functional software development for devices is complete automation of the process from development of control algorithms on mathematical models of the controlled objects to device delivery to the object. The international standard IEC 61131-3 recommends that a software environment where the algorithms are represented in the form of graphical functional block diagrams, which promote algorithm clarity and facilitate verification and preliminary testing, be used during the applied design of automated systems controlling technological processes. It is recommended that verified automatic code generators be used to develop the functional device software. For clarity in debugging the algorithms of device control systems, the programming medium must contain a module for exchanging data in accordance with the design scheme of the control system.