Patent ID: 9684347
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a control device, one or more signals from a power generation equipment, wherein the one or more signals received from the power generation equipment include at least one previous frame and a current frame of input pin data and output pin data, wherein the input pin data and the output pin data are associated with at least one logic builder block of the power generation equipment, wherein the logic builder block comprises at least one combinational Boolean logic block; processing, by the control device, the one or more signals to control the power generation equipment according to permissive logic instructions that permit or prohibit progression in a state machine or a process presented in a graphical representation of the logic builder block, the graphical representation including the at least one combinational Boolean logic block, wherein the logic builder block includes one or more input pins of combinational logic blocks, each of the one or more input pins being associated with one of the one or more signals; based on the processing, sending, by the control device, data associated with the one or more signals to a storage area for updating on a display; determining, by the control device, at least one change of an input pin value between the previous frame and the current frame that causes at least one output pin associated with at least one of the combinational Boolean logic blocks to change; and providing, on the display, a real-time updated graphical representation of the logic builder block that includes the at least one combinational Boolean logic block, wherein the at least one change of the input pin value is visually indicated by highlighting.