Blocks
Five types of blocks are available:
- Organization blocks (OB) - for managing the control program
- Programming blocks (PB) - contain the control program structured according to functional or process-oriented characteristics
- Sequence blocks (SB) - for programming sequential controls
- Function blocks (FB) - contain frequently occurring and particularly complex program parts
- Data blocks (DB) - for storing data required for processing the control program.
Some S5 PLCs also have block types FX (Extended Function Blocks), and DX(Extended Data Blocks); these are not distinct block types, but rather are another set of available blocks due to the CPU having more memory and addressing space.
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