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Function Blocks - IEC 61499 Standard. Engineering Distributed Embedded Automation Systems with the New Generation Component Architecture. Function Blocks is a new exciting and powerful way of engineering industrial automation systems. Function Blocks for Embedded and Distributed Control Systems Design.

Comparison of Function Block Interfaces and UML Ports. This site is intended as a forum for the discussion about function blocks and its use in the field of software engineering for reactive and embedded systems. The term Function Block is used with a general meaning which is explained in the introduction. Especially the relation between function blocks and the Unified Modeling Language should be discussed in this site. You can also find a short history of function blocks here.

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The IEC61499 architecture represents a component solution for distributed industrial automation systems aiming at portability, reusability interoperability, reconfiguration of distributed applications. The IEC 61499 Standard provides a generic model for distributed systems. This model includes processes and communication networks as an environment for embedded devices, resources and applications. Are built by networks of Function Blocks. Separation of data and event flow.