4DIAC is a framework for distributed industrial automation and control. It aims to provide an open, IEC-61499-compliant basis that lets the user establish a distributed industrial automation and control environment based on the targets' portability, configurability, and interoperability.
| Tags | IEC 61499 Embedded Systems distributed control real-time control engineering tools |
|---|---|
| Licenses | EPL |
| Operating Systems | Linux Win32 eCos ThreadX |
| Implementation | Eclipse RCP Java C++ |
| Translations | English |
Last announcement
It is a great pleasure for us to announce the feature freeze phase for the upcoming 4DIAC release. For supporting this phase we created named branc...
Recent releases


Release Notes: This third Maintenance Release for 4DIAC 1.1 provids bugfixes and improvements to 4DIAC-IDE (11) and FORTE (5). The most important fix is a resource leak fix in 4DIAC-IDE.


Release Notes: This is the second Maintenance Release for 4DIAC 1.1, providing bugfixes to 4DIAC-IDE (9) and FORTE (6).


Release Notes: This is a maintenance release for 4DIAC 1.1 providing bugfixes to 4DIAC-IDE (18) and FORTE (6).


Release Notes: This is a combined release of all current 4DIAC projects. The major changes and improvements in 4DIAC-IDE are: improved type handling, making it more robust, a monitoring and debugging infrastructure, and an FB tester. The major changes and improvements for FORTE are: optimization of memory usage, a monitoring and debugging infrastructure, new communication layers for Modbus and OPC DA client, Lego Mindstorms nxt as a target platform, and loading of boot files on startup.


Release Notes: This is a combined release of all current 4DIAC projects. The major changes and improvements in 4DIAC-IDE are: an improved application editor, function block editing extended with adapter support, FB outline, and inline editing of many FB elements, and clear resource/device in deployment perspective. The major changes and improvements for FORTE are: optimization of performance (more half execution time) and size (about 1/3), improved data type handling, adapters in basic FBs, and support for real-time OS eCos.