Month: July 2025

Under the background of the accelerated evolution from industrial automation to intelligence, the 64-bit multi-core processor architecture adopted by ABB control board is reshaping the industry performance standard. This innovative design not only breaks through the computational limitations of traditional industrial controllers, but also provides a solid hardware foundation for realizing the complex control requirements of Industry 4.0.

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Introduction

General

DriveAP is a Windows based tool program for Application Programming. It can be used without a drive or with one or more drives.

DriveAP is designed to run under the Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 operating environment on IBM-compatible PCs.

Application Programming is based on the use of function blocks like in other IEC 61131-3 tools. Block names, functionality and appearance are originated from the drive software.

By using the DriveAP program it is possible to:

• Make a connection to a drive. If there are more than one drive connected to the PC, the user can select the drive from the list of available drives. 

• Upload the program from the connected drive and display it graphica ly on the screen

• Monitor actual values of user-selected block pins on the screen in real time 

• Modify the program on the screen 

• Download the program on the screen to the connected drive 

• Set the state (Running, Stopped or Edit) of the program in the connected drive 

• Print the program on the screen 

• Save the program on the screen to a disk file 

• Open program file saved earlier and display it graphically on the screen. The program can now be modified, downloaded, saved etc. 

• See the descriptions of all blocks

Program Types and User Interfaces

When a program from a drive has been uploaded (or a program file has been opened), DriveAP automatically selects the appropriate user interface for the program: 

 • Standard User Interface is used with Adaptive Programming programs. A program contains only one page with three parts: – user constants are at the left side – function blocks are in the middle – connection and pointer parameters are at the right side 

 • Advanced User Interface is used with Multi Block Programming Application programs. A program contains several pages selectable by page tabs. These pages contain blocks as follows: 

– input IO blocks are at the left side – normal blocks are in the middle 

– output IO blocks are at the right side – comment blocks can be anywhere

DriveAP 1  includes only the Standard User Interface for Adaptive Programming. DriveAP 2  includes both User Interfaces.

On the following two pages are example pages of these two program types.