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Introduction

IEC 61499 Function block architecture

20:28 · Introduction

The function block model, interface design, event/data associations, and how communication between function blocks works.

The lecture covers the following topics

  • Motivation: A mechatronic component
  • Motivation: communicating components
  • Artifacts of the function block architecture
  • Function block model
  • Kinds of function blocks
  • Function block interface
  • Events in function blocks
  • Function block interface: Event/data association
  • Communicating function blocks
  • Types, instances, and connections
  • How does the event-data communication work?
  • Data types