The IEC 61499 standard allows to model and design
new generation control systems, providing innovative
concepts of software engineering (such as abstraction,
encapsulation, reuse) to the world of control
engineering. The industrial reception of the standard,
however, is still in an early stage, also because its
introduction results in the adoption of a programming
paradigm profoundly different than the widespread IEC
61131-3. This paper presents a method for the
integration of the two standards, that allows to exploit
the benefits of both. The proposed architecture is based
on the parallel execution of both environments that
interact with each other through some specific
interfaces. A test implementation of the architecture is
also presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the
proposed solution
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