→Data type

according to →IEC-standard: set of values together with a set of permitted operations

See "Supported data types", if you want to know which user-defined and elementary data types can be used in Neuron Power Engineer. Each elementary data type can be associated to a →generic data type.

Neuron Power Engineer supports the declaration of data types in these languages (according to IEC-standard):

language	details under
→ST	Declaration of a data type in ST Special case: You are able to declare →enums (data types with named elements) by using the enum-editor.

 The data type determines color/style of the graphical elements. See "Color and style for FBD-elements determined by data type" for a list of colors used for the data types.