Licensing of Products Many CODESYS products are license-protected, so you need to activate a product before you start it. An add-on product that extends the capabilities of the CODESYS Development Sys

Using Scripts With the scripting feature in CODESYS , you can automate commands or complex program operations that you would otherwise have to do manually with mouse clicks and text input in the CODES

Security Due to the increased networking of controllers and plants, potential threats are also quickly rising. Therefore, you should carefully consider all possible safety measures. Security measures

General Information The following provides some general information about safety functions ("security" measures). This information applies regardless of the usage in CODESYS or one with a connection c

Generating Application Code The application code is the machine code that a PLC executes when you start an application. CODESYS automatically generates the application code from the source code that w

Downloading the Application Code, Logging in, and Starting the PLC In order to download the source code of your application to the PLC, you need to log in to the PLC with application. If there are sev

Creating a Boot Application A boot application is the application version, which is started automatically when the controller is switched on or started. For this to happen, the application on the PLC

Downloading Source Code to and from the PLC CODESYS provides the capability of loading project source code to a PLC as a project archive. You can then transfer this project archive back to the develop

Distributing Application Code to Different Memory Areas CODESYS provides the capability of storing application code in different memory areas on the controller. The requirement is that you are using a

Testing and Debugging CODESYS provides various options for testing your application and detecting errors. You can start your application in simulation mode, even without connecting any hardware. Using