The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an equipment control processing method and device. The method includes: determining an action type according to an action of the component to be controlled; determining a target action logic code class according to the action type and a plurality of pre-created action logic code classes, wherein the action logic code class is created according to the action types extracted from the actions of a plurality of the components to be controlled; creating an action object corresponding to the component to be controlled according to the target action logic code class; correlating control signal corresponding to the action of the component to be controlled and the action object corresponding to the component to be controlled, and storing correlation between the control signal and the action object, so as to implement control processing on the component to be controlled according to the correlation between the control signal and the action object. The device is used to perform the method above. The method and device provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure improve the equipment control efficiency.

An apparatus comprises an integrated circuit (IC) including sequencer circuitry; and a memory integral to or operatively coupled to the integrated circuit, wherein at least a portion of the memory is organized as a plurality of hierarchical linked lists defining a finite state machine of a plurality of finite IC states; wherein the sequencer circuitry is configured to: receive one or more control words from the hierarchical linked lists associated with an IC state; advance the IC to the IC state according to the one or more control words; and perform one or more actions corresponding to the IC state.

An apparatus that searches for a pattern in a signal is disclosed. The apparatus can be used to implement a real time trigger in an instrument such as a high speed oscilloscope. The apparatus includes a symbol generator and a finite state machine (FSM). The symbol generator receives an ordered sequence of signal values and converts the ordered sequence of signal values into an ordered sequence of symbols, each symbol having a plurality of states. The FSM receives the ordered sequence of symbols and generates a match signal if the ordered sequence of symbols includes a target sequence specified by a regular expression that includes a counting limitation on one of the symbol states. The FSM includes a counting state that includes a counter that counts instances of the one of the symbol states.

A control system, a safety system, etc., within a process plant may each use one or more state machine function blocks that can be easily integrated into a function block diagram programming environment. Such a state machine function block may include one or more inputs, which may cause a state machine implemented by the state machine function block to identify a next state as well as one or more transition actions to perform in accordance with transitioning from a current state to the next state. Configuration data associated with the transition actions may be retrieved from a database based on the current and next states of the state machine and at least one of the inputs. The state machine function block may also include one or more outputs that are generated based on the state transition.

An example finite state machine may include a content-addressable memory. The content-addressable memory may include blocks that respectively store input-terms of the finite state machine. The finite state machine may be configured to, for each received input: select a subset of the blocks of the content addressable memory to enable for searching, the subset being selected based on a current state of the finite state machine, and determine a next state of the finite state machine by searching the currently enabled subset of blocks of the content addressable memory based on the input.

A method for controlling a wind turbine comprising a first control unit controlling the wind turbine or a part of the wind turbine, the first control unit having a first number of first states. In order to improve the safety integrity level of the wind tur bine, the wind turbine further comprises a second control unit for controlling the first control unit, the second control unit having a second number of second states whereby the number of the second states of the second control unit is lower than the number of the first states of the first control unit. The second control unit maps to each second state a specific states of the number of first states of the first control unit as a target state and allows only a pre-defined set of transitions between the second states of the second control unit.

A virtual machine allows for the control of an automation network by utilizing finite state machines to model the device network and map commands to real-world devices. The finite state machines may be constructed utilizing information on transitions and state descriptions specified in a file, as well as logic descriptions.

An apparatus comprises an integrated circuit (IC) including sequencer circuitry; and a memory integral to or operatively coupled to the integrated circuit, wherein at least a portion of the memory is organized as a plurality of hierarchical linked lists defining a finite state machine of a plurality of finite IC states; wherein the sequencer circuitry is configured to: receive one or more control words from the hierarchical linked lists associated with an IC state; advance the IC to the IC state according to the one or more control words; and perform one or more actions corresponding to the IC state.

The present disclosure pertains to a programmable data width converter device, system and method thereof. Programmable data width converter (pDWC) of the present disclosure can include a control Finite State Machine (FSM) that is configured to receive input values of m and n, and control any or a combination of L (Load Control Signal), S (Shift Control Signal), LL (Load Location Control Signal), and p (programmable shift value) based on the received values of m and n; and a loadable programmable shift register with programmable load location (pSRL) operatively coupled with the control FSM, wherein the pSRL is configured to perform loading and shifting functions based on the L, S, LL, and p values loaded by the control FSM. The pDWC can be configured to programmably convert width of m k-bit word input to n k-bit word output, and wherein 1mM and 1nN.

A method of manufacturing at least a first product and a second product with at least a first machine and a second machine at minimum cost in an environment in which a cost of energy used by the first machine and the second machine varies as a function of time may include generating multiple chromosomes, determining fitness scores of each of the chromosomes, randomly generating, with probabilities based on the fitness scores, new chromosomes, determining fitness scores of the new chromosomes, selecting one of the new chromosomes with an optimal fitness score, and manufacturing at least the first product and the second product with at least the first machine and the second machine according to a schedule based on the selected new chromosome.