Eclipse 4diac 3.0 - New and Noteworthy

4diac IDE

• Refactoring functions in graphical and textual editors
• Validation of IEC 61499 projects, including support for loading and repairing incomplete projects
• Completely reworked and largely improved the IEC 61131-3 Structured Text editors
• Interpreter for IEC 61131-3 Structured Text allowing testing and debugging of FBs directly in 4diac IDE
• Support for named constants
• A new library and package system
• Added IEC 61131-3 functions and VAR_IN_OUT support
• Simplified deployment and monitoring, with the ability to store deployment and monitoring configurations

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4diac FORTE

• Support for ARRAYs with arbitrary boundaries [n..m]
• Support for variable length ARRAYs [*]
• Support for negated outputs ( => NOT)
• Fixed casting behavior for type where binary transfer or sign extension is necessary
• Added LTIME types
• Improved partial ANY_BIT support (comparisons + assignments to partials (non standard))
• Improved standard compliance for implicit and explicit casts
• Improved STRING support (partial access)
• Added all IEC 61131-3 standard functions
• Added support for all variadic functions (MIN, MAX, CONCAT, ADD, MUL)
• Fixed that now STRINGS and CHARS can be CONCATenated to a STRING
• Improved return type support for FUNCTIONS with ANY-type return types
• Added standard-conformant FOR loop
• Support of high resolution clocks
• Fixed representations of TIME data types and ANY_REAL types
• Improved support for ANY type IN/OUTs
• Fixed SHR/SHL/ROR/ROL to standard conformity
• Fixed XOR corner case when BOOL is involved
• Changed code base to C++20

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4diac FBE

• New component in 4diac 3.0
• 4diac FBE builds 4diac FORTE fully automatically, no manual downloads or installs of third-party software needed
• Manages multiple 4diac FORTE configurations for multiple target machines and operating systems on a single developer machine
• Integration into 4diac IDE upcoming, a beta-quality setup is available