Application Example of Synchronization
In this sample application, the application controls the synchronization of data in the redundancy system. The example shows how the synchronization phases can be triggered by means of the library POUs and how the state data of the redundancy system can be evaluated. A visualization displays these states and provides redundancy commands. The visualization is an interface for a user.
The redundancy system consists of the two REDU01
and REDU01
CODESYS Control Win PLCs. The visualization runs on a CODESYS TargetVisu.
Configuration
Object in Device Tree | Settings |
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Task Configuration | ![]() |
Redundancy Configuration | |
PLC 2 |
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General | ![]() |
Redundancy Link | ![]() |
Visualization | ![]() |
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Global data
GVL
(* Variables synchronized at Redundancy synchronization. Synchronization happens - on bootup of the second PLC - on call to RedundancySynchronizeData - in every task cycle if setting is active in cfg file of both PLCs: [CmpRedundancy] DataSyncAlways=1 *) VAR_GLOBAL globalvar1: INT; arr1 : ARRAY [0..10000] OF DWORD; arr2 : ARRAY [0..10000] OF DWORD; arr3 : ARRAY [0..10000] OF DWORD; arr4 : ARRAY [0..10000] OF DWORD; bSyncDataResult: BOOL; END_VAR
GVL_1
VAR_GLOBAL sReduState: RedundancyState; conni: REDUNDANCY_CONNECTION_INFO; sSyncInfo: SYNC_INFO; sPlcIdent: PLC_IDENT; bConnectionState: BOOL; tLast: TIME; nTimeWarp: INT; tDiff: TIME; nTimeRun: INT; tNow: TIME; sState: STRING; acopy: INT; MB2 AT %MX0.2: BOOL; tDiffMax: TIME; tNow2: TIME; tDiff2: TIME; nTimeWarp2: INT; tDiffMax2: TIME; tLast2: TIME; tNowDownloadDone: TIME; tNowCodeInitDone: TIME; nCycle: INT; atNow: ARRAY [0..9] OF TIME; nCycle2: INT; atNow2: ARRAY [0..9] OF TIME; bAreaRegisterDone: BOOL; pIB64: POINTER TO BYTE; bUpdateData: BOOL; bSwitchToStandby: BOOL; bSwitchToActive: BOOL; bSwitchToSimulation: BOOL; bSynchronize: BOOL; bSwitchToStandaloneResult: BOOL; END_VAR
GVL_Synchro
(* Global variables, registered to be synchronized in every task cycle. *) VAR_GLOBAL iSyncFirst: INT; iSyncCount: INT; iSyncLast: INT; END_VAR
POUs for controlling the synchronization
PROGRAM PLC_PRG VAR a: INT; bSyncCalled: BOOL; Timestamp1: systime.SYSTIME; firstcycle: BOOL := TRUE; Timestamp2: systime.SYSTIME; b: INT; sText: STRING; bCopy: BOOL; Blink: TON; bBlink: BOOL; bAutoSync: BOOL := TRUE; // Flag to enable autosync mechanism xResSync: BOOL; END_VARIF a = 0 THEN Blink(PT := T#1S, IN := TRUE); END_IF a := a + 6; globalvar1 := globalvar1 + 1; (* Call functions of redundancy library *) GetRedundancyState(ADR(sReduState)); bConnectionState := GetConnectionState(); sPlcIdent := GetPlcIdent(); (* Call functions of redundancy connection library *) GetConnectionInfo(ADR(conni)); GetSyncInformation(ADR(sSyncInfo)); // Flag to enable autosync mechanism IF bAutoSync THEN IF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_CYCLE_STANDALONE AND bConnectionState AND xResSync = FALSE AND sPlcIdent = RDCY.PLC_IDENT.PLC_ID_2 THEN // Call of Synchronize from redundant application. Note, actual synchronisation is executed from background loop with some delay xResSync := RDCY.Synchronize(); END_IF END_IF // Recover from error state (*IF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_SYNCHRO_ERROR THEN bSwitchToStandaloneResult := SwitchToStandalone(); END_IF IF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_CYCLE_ACTIVE THEN bSyncDataResult := RedundancySynchronizeData(); END_IF *) IF bUpdateData THEN bUpdateData := FALSE; RedundancySynchronizeData(); END_IF IF bSwitchToStandby THEN bSwitchToStandby := FALSE; SwitchToStandby(); END_IF IF bSwitchToActive THEN bSwitchToActive := FALSE; SwitchToActive(); END_IF IF bSwitchToSimulation THEN bSwitchToSimulation := FALSE; SwitchToSimulation(); END_IF IF bSynchronize THEN bSynchronize := FALSE; Synchronize(); END_IF Blink(); IF Blink.Q THEN Blink.IN := FALSE; Blink(); Blink.IN := TRUE; bBlink := NOT bBlink; END_IF %IB64; IF bCopy THEN bCopy := FALSE; acopy := a; END_IF arr2 := arr1; IF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_CYCLE_ACTIVE THEN sState := 'Active'; b := b + 1; pIB64 := ADR(%IB64); pIB64^ := pIB64^ + 1; ELSIF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_CYCLE_STANDBY THEN sState := 'Passive'; ELSIF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_CYCLE_STANDALONE THEN sState := 'Standalone'; ELSIF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_SIMULATION THEN sState := 'Simulation'; ELSIF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_SYNCHRO THEN sState := 'Synchro'; ELSIF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_SYNCHRO_ERROR THEN sState := 'SYNCHRO_ERROR'; ELSIF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_NO_LICENSE THEN sState := 'LICENCE EXPIRED'; ELSIF sReduState.eRedundancyState = RDCY.STATE.RS_START THEN sState := 'START'; ELSE sState := 'Other'; END_IF nCycle := nCycle + 1;
PROGRAM POU VAR END_VAR tNow2 := TIME(); tDiff2 := tNow - tLast; IF tDiff2 > T#1D THEN nTimeWarp2 := nTimeWarp2 + 1; LogAdd(STD_LOGGER, 'IEC', 0, 0, 0, 'Time Warp'); END_IF IF tDiff2 > tDiffMax2 THEN tDiffMax2 := tDiff2; END_IF tLast2 := TIME(); IF nCycle2 < 10 THEN atNow2[nCycle2] := tNow2; END_IF nCycle2 := nCycle2 + 1;
FUNCTION cdCodeInit : DWORD VAR_IN_OUT EventPrm: CmpApp.EVTPARAM_CmpApp; END_VAR VAR END_VAR tNowCodeInitDone := TIME();
FUNCTION cbDownloadDone : DWORD VAR_IN_OUT EventPrm: CmpApp.EVTPARAM_CmpApp; END_VAR VAR END_VAR (* Register GVL_Synchro to be synchronized in every task cycle *) bAreaRegisterDone := AreaRegister(ADR(iSyncFirst), ADR(iSyncLast) - ADR(iSyncFirst) + sizeof(iSyncLast), AREA_TYPE.AREA_SYNCHRO); tNowDownloadDone := TIME();
Visualization
