Programming machine

In a programming unit for a storage-programmable state control with a memory device, in which is stored a control task created with a software tool in the form of an action-time diagram, which is displayable on a display device and describes input and output signals of a technical process to be controlled in the form of binary and/or analog signals, a method for creating a control program having control and status codes to solve the control task starting out from an instantaneous state, the method comprising steps of:

• a) searching for instants ti at which signal level transitions of the input signals occur;
• b) searching for a signal level value of the input signal exhibiting the level transition determined at any one time at an instant ti+.DELTA.ta, wherein .DELTA.ta is a first specifiable time span;
• c) searching for signal level values of the remaining input signals at an instant ti-.DELTA.tb, wherein .DELTA.tb is a second specifiable time span;
• d) searching for signal level values of the output signals at the instant ti+.DELTA.ta;
• e) generating an input vector from the signal level values of the input signals that were searched for;
• f) generating a control data vector from the signal level values of the output signals that were searched for;
• and
• g) allocating the input vector to a sequential follow-up
• up state at the instant ti+.DELTA.ta.