User Guide

Ref. IS.MDuino.42+ Rev. 1: 30-08-2019

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Industrial Shields PLC are programmed using Arduino IDE, which is a software based on the C

language. They can also be programmed using directly C but it is much easier working with

Arduino IDE as it provides lots of libraries that helps in the programming.

Industrial Shields provides boards for programming the PLCs much easier. Basically it is no

needed to define the pins and if that pins are inputs or outputs. Everything is set up

automatically if using the boards.

In order to install Industrial Shields boards, these are the steps that must be followed.

Requirements:

Arduino IDE 1.8.0 or above (better to have always the latest version).

Steps:

1. Open Arduino IDE and go to: “File -> Preferences” located in the top left corner.

2. In Additional Boards Manager URLs write the following:

http://apps.industrialshields.com/main/arduino/boards/package_industrialshields_index.json

3. Press OK to save the changes.