Compact Control Builder supports data types such as Booleans, integers, floating- point numbers, strings, time, date, etc. All in accordance with the IEC 61131-3 standard. These basic data types can be combined into new structured data types, which in turn may contain other structured data types.
Variable identifiers may be up to 32 characters long. The library of functions available is probably the industry’s largest, containing everything from simple AND and OR gates to ready-for-use self-tuning "adaptive" PID controllers. Not to forget unique elements for direct interfacing with variable- speed drives and for easy handling of all the software-related redundancy
features the AC 800M controller offers.
Applications can either be loaded into the target controller(s) by non-volatile Compact Flash memory cards or over a serial link or Ethernet network into battery backedup RAM.