→Generic data type

according to →IEC-standard: →data type which represents more than one type of data 

Neuron Power Engineer is using generic data types for certain inputs/outputs resp. return values in some system blocks for the application. Compare: →Overloading and →Typed

Here the hierarchy of the generic data types and the appropriate elementary data types:

generic data types						appropriate elementary data types
ANY
	ANY_DERIVED					→user-defined data types
	ANY_ELEMENTARY
		ANY_MAGNITUDE
			ANY_NUM
				ANY_REAL		REAL, LREAL
				ANY_INT
					ANY_UNSIGNED	USINT, UINT, UDINT, ULINT
					ANY_SIGNED	SINT, INT, DINT, LINT
			ANY_DURATION			TIME, LTIME(Currently, LTIME is not supported in Neuron Power Engineer.)
		ANY_BIT				BOOL, BYTE, WORD, DWORD, LWORD
		ANY_CHARS
			ANY_STRING			STRING, WSTRING(Currently, WSTRING is not supported in Neuron Power Engineer.)
			ANY_CHAR			CHAR, WCHAR(Currently, WCHAR is not supported in Neuron Power Engineer.)
		ANY_DATE				DATE_AND_TIME, LDATE_AND_TIME, DATE, TIME_OF_DAY, LTIME_OF_DAY, LDATE(Currently, LDATE_AND_TIME, LTIME_OF_DAY und LDATE are not supported in Neuron Power Engineer.)

 

Note on how to interpret the table: If the last column does not list elementary data types for a generic data types, this generic data type includes the elementary data types of those generic data types that are subordinated.

• Example 1: The generic data type ANY is the highest possible generalization of the data types. Hence, ANY includes all elementary data types (ANY_ELEMENTARY) and all derived data types (ANY_DERIVED).

• Example 2: The generic data type ANY_INT includes the elementary data types of the subordinated generic data types ANY_UNSIGNED and ANY_SIGNED. Hence, ANY_INT includes: USINT, UINT, UDINT, ULINT, SINT, INT, DINT, LINT