I did this on one application, and it worked well once I figured out how the *X logic instructions _really_ worked (i.e., the documentation was inaccurate and misleading). Essentially, you have to watch out for implicit type coercion between signed and unsigned integer when using some of those instructions (but not others). As for Nick's comment about code documentation, I agree, and I took great pains to document both in the CALCA and externally. I used CALCA because of Alex's rules(tm), and the fact that I needed the code to run every scan and I didn't want to worry about BPCSTM issues with an IND block. Further, most people around here are more familiar with CALC code than HLBL. Corey From: "Wilson, Brad" <brad.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 08/16/2011 08:49 AM Subject: Re: [foxboro] CALCA Sent by: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Similarly, you can connect a 32-bit packed integer to LI01 and access the bits directly as I01-I32. IN I01 ; read bit 1 of LI01 to the stack IN I17 ; read bit 17 of LI01 to the stack Only LI01 and LO01 can be accessed bit-wise, not LI02 & LO02. If you want to do 16-bit logic (ANDX, XORX, etc), use INH & INL to read the high & low 16-bits of of LIxx or LOxx. Brad Wilson Invensys Operations Management SAMREF Project Team brad.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx 732-874-0087 cell 626-599-2502 office 971 (04) 807 4799 Dubai office 971 (055) 284 1692 Dubai cell -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Badura, Tom Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 5:29 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] CALCA John, I think I have done something like this in the past. May not be exactly right, but I believe the concept works. Bring booleans in via MCOUTs into II01 and 02 on CALCA and move into LO01. You can then perform Boolean operations on the individual bits in LO01 (O01-O32). Booleans 1-16 --> IN1-16[MCOUT1]PAKCRB --> II01[CALCA] |----->LO01 Booleans 17-32 --> IN1-16N[MCOUT2]PAKCRB --> II02[CALCA] Something Like IN II01; B1-16 to High Bytes STH LO01; IN II02; B17-B32 to Low Bytes STL LO01 | AND L01 LO2; Do Required Boolean Logic OR L17 L18; etc Tom Badura Plastics Engineering Company tbadura@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave