A one-rung ladder program – Rockwell Automation 9323-S5500D A.I. SERIES MICROLOGIX 1000 AND PLC-500 SOFTW User Manual

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Ladder Program Basics

5-3

A One-Rung Ladder Program

A ladder program consists of individual rungs, each consisting of at least one output

instruction. A rung may have at most 128 instructions: a combination of 0 to 127

input instructions and 1 to 75 output instructions. Various rung constructions are

discussed later. Every program file must have an END rung. This is automatically

programmed by PLC-500 A.I.

The ladder rung below has two input instructions and an output instruction. An output

instruction always appears at the right, next to the right power rail. Input instructions

always appear to the left of the output instruction.

] [

] [

/

( )

B3

B3

B3

10

11

12

XIC

XIO

OTE

Input Instructions

Output Instruction

XIC

=Examine if Closed

Address

B3/10

XIO

=Examine if Open

Address

B3/11

OTE

=Output Energize

Address

B3/12

A simple rung, using relay logic instructions

Note that each instruction in the diagram above has an address. This address identifies

a storage location in the processor’s data files, where the on/off state of the instruction

is stored. For more information on addressing, refer to

Appendix C - Data File

Organization and Addressing

in the

Instruction Set Reference

. Addresses of the above

instructions indicate Bit data file 3 (B3), bits 10, 11, and 12:

15 14 13 12 11 10 9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

0

0

1

0

0

1

0

0

0

0 0

0

0

0

0

0

Bit Data File 3,
Element 0

XIO

XIC

OTE

In the preceding diagram, we indicated that bit 10 is logic 1 (on), bit 11 is logic 0 (off),

and bit 12 is logic 1 (on). These logic states indicate whether an instruction is true or

false, as pointed out in the table below.

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