Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Comparing
ISaGRAF 5.13
and
ISaGRAF 6.5

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Revision History
Version Date Description
0.1
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Author Reviewer 1 Reviewer 2 Reviewer 3 Approver

Jayashree Dinesh Shikand Satheesh Ronnie Li Shikand Satheesh

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Contents
Introduction 5
ISaGRAF Differences 5
Toolbox PLUS Differences 8

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Introduction
This article provides basic comparison between ISaGRAF workbench 5.13 and 6.5. It also compares
Toolbox PLUS V6 and Toolbox PLUS V5. Some of the newer user interfaces are presented below. Please
note that most of the ISaGRAF differences are user interface oriented and the below are not an
exhaustive list of differences.

ISaGRAF Differences
ISaGRAF 6.5 ISaGRAF 5.13

1. Licensed automatically when you Requires USB dongle License

purchase Toolbox PLUS software.

2. Unlimited licensing via ISaGRAF Licensing based on number of real I/O

downloads (The software USB has to be points.
purchased one-time from Servelec
Technologies).
The dongle comes in different prices
The license can be duplicated on to
depending upon the number of I/O points
unlimited number of devices per
available in the license (64, 256, 1024,
organisation.
unlimited etc.).

Limited to one device.

3. No Site sentinel driver required. Site sentinel USB driver required.

4. New and improved workspace: Provides a window/editor-based

environment requiring closing the Dictionary
Provides a tab-oriented environment
before using newly-defined variables in a
enabling navigation between multiple
POU.
POUs and Dictionary instances.

Ability to customise the workspace by

choosing different colours to each and
every element in the POU.

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5. Solution Explorer: The Project Tree view :

Organised view of projects and their Displays the project structure and enables
element. In ISaGRAF6.5, it is easier to accessing most aspects of a currently
switch between tasks. opened project.

6. Dictionary : Dictionary:

Attributes: Read/Write, Read and Write Attributes: Free, Read and Write.
Direction: Var, VarOutput, VarInput, Var
Direction: Internal, Output and Input.
Directly Represented, and VarGlobal.

7. Block Library : Not available in ISaGRAF 5.13

A graphical view of all operators,

functions and function blocks available
for POUs of a project. You can drag and
drop the library contents.

8. Elements are imported and exported in Elements are imported/exported in

compressed 7-zip exchange files. compressed .PXF exchange files

Note: elements exported from the

ISaGRAF 5.13 cannot be imported into
ISaGRAF 6.5.

Work around: Migrate the project to

Toolbox PLUS 6.

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9. POUs can be selected from Solution
Explorer and edited in its own tab page
of the main workspace. Multiple POUs
can be opened at the same time so it is
easier to manage them in a coordinated
way.
10. Supports Programming languages :
ST :Structured Text
LD: Ladder diagram
FBD: Function block diagram
SFC: Sequential function chart.
IEC 61499
SAMA: Scientific Apparatus Makers
Association
11. ISaVIEW: Graphical debugging tool.
12. Version Source Control :
Version source control uses SVN
software based on the AnkhSVN source
control plug in for Visual Studio. User can
choose to commit changes of elements
to the SVN repository. Download any
versions from the repository.
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ISaGRAF 6.5
POUs are displayed in Project Tree view and
link architecture view. POU editing is done in
a separate application ‘DGE’ so the user
needs to use a separate window to view and
modify logic.
Supports Programming languages :
ST :Structured Text
LD: Ladder diagram
FBD: Function block diagram
SFC: Sequential function chart.
IEC 61499
FC: Flow chart.
IL : Instruction list
Not available in ISaGRAF 5.13
Version Source control :
Version source control is done by saving the
workbench elements into a data bases
defined in the local/ remote computer or a
server.
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Toolbox PLUS Differences

TOOLBOX PLUS 6 TOOLBOX PLUS 5

1. No Site sentinel driver required. Site sentinel USB driver required

2. Save and build indicators are there on No save and build indicators. There is no
the Navigation pane near the project means to indicate whether the project is
name and RTU name. saved or build.

 Asterisk near the Project/ RTU

name tells whether the Project/
RTU is saved.
 Different coloured disc indicates
whether the project is build.

3. IP White listing : Not available in Toolbox PLUS 5

Allows user to list all the remote IP

address this RTU communicates, if IP
address other than listed try to
communicate with the RTU, it rejects the
request.

4. Improved comms analyser : Not available in Toolbox PLUS 5

Option for sending analyser packets to

Wireshark.

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