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We have seen about in my previous article.

We have seen in that article about different types of plc programming blocks
and how can we use them in the programming.

In this article, we are going to see the difference between FC and FB blocks in
the siemens plc system. So let’s start the blog.

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and both are just like a subroutine. Users

can create a part of the logic in this block and then call it each time when

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required to execute that logic.

This logic must be such as,

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Function (FC) and Function Block (FB) both are used to optimize user
programming. The main use of FC and FB is to divide and organize the user
program into smaller parts that can be easily understood. It helps in
maintenance and troubleshooting.

FC and FB can be created by the user and used as a user library. So, users have
to just write it once, and can be used as many times as required. This also
reduces and rationalizes the resources of the CPU, such as memory occupation.

A Function(FC) is a logic block without memory. This block can be created by

the user and called as many times as required. We can assign different
parameters in the function such as In, Out, In-Out, Temp.

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Temp variables de�ned in the FC are stored in the local data stack, which will
be lost after the execution of FC.

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The above image shows the FC blocks for the motor starter. All the parameters
such In, Out, In-Out have to �ll with the address.

A Function Block(FB) is a logic block with memory. This block can also be
created by the user and called as many times as required. The difference is
whenever we called a Function Block(FB), it creates a DB as its memory. This
DB is called an instance data block.

We can also assign different parameters in the function block as In, Out, In-
Out, Temp, and Stat, which is an additional parameter in the FB. Data saved in
the instance data block is not lost after the execution of the FB. Static variables
are stored in the instance data block. However, Temp data is stored in the local
data stack which is lost after the execution of FB.

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The above image shows the Function Block(FB) for the control valve operation.
You need not enter all the parameters with the address. FB will generate an
instance data block with each call.

⇒ The main difference is FC has no instance memory, while FB has an instance

Data Block(DB). This instance data block saves all the parameters of In, Out,
In-Out, and Stat. They can be accessible even after the execution of FB.

⇒ We can program FC or FB with FBD, LAD, STL, and SCL. The FB has
additional capabilities to program in Graph.

⇒ Whenever we called for FB, it generated an instance Data Block(DB) with it.
There is no such necessity for FC.

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⇒ In FC, we can not leave any parameters such In, Out, In-Out blank. Since all
the formal parameters in FC do not save in any memory and as a result there is
no initial value assigned to them. In FB, we can leave any of the parameters
such as In, Out, In-Out with no address.

I hope you like this article about the difference between FC and FB in Siemens
PLC programming blocks. Please share this blog with your colleagues and
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