This version incorporates many new features based on the experience gained with previous versions of VLC applied in a variety of industries. Using iRMX as the runtime operating system ensures that logic control execution receives top priority. All other noncontrol tasks run only after control logic is complete.
Most users demand that a PC-based control solution be as robust as traditional control methods.
Windows 3.1 and NT do not provide deterministic performance needed for discrete control applications. As an alternative to traditional ladder logic programming, Steeplechase has chosen to support flowchart programming. However, many of Steeplechase's customers requested the addition of ladder logic programming. As a transition to flowcharts, VLC Version 3.0 provides an easy migration path to flowchart programming. It allows users to mix and match ladder logic and flowcharts in a single control project.