Patent ID: 9075959
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: providing, by a system including a processor, a development interface comprising one or more services or views for constructing a control systems application, wherein the one or more service or views employs an abstract model that interfaces to a plurality of industrial automation programming languages and a common programming language, wherein development interface is configurable between two operating modes: an isolated mode that configures the one or more services or views for use with a single industrial automation programming language of the plurality of industrial automation programming languages; and an integrated mode function that configures the one or more services or views for use with the plurality of industrial automation programming languages and the common programming language; and browsing, by the system, hardware devices in a tree structure, acquiring, by the system, respective direct input and output variable addresses of the hardware devices, and mapping, by the system, the direct input and output variable addresses to symbolic variables; displaying, by the system, the mapping of the direct input and output variable addresses to symbolic variables; and debugging, by the system, the control systems application using the abstract model.