Tabula™ for SPLat
Tabula is a free spreadsheet-like tool that makes it very easy to program SPLat controllers for typical event-action applications. It draws on our company's decades of experience in programming reactive control systems. Tabula programming is based on a rock solid, well-accepted theoretical foundation, but is presented in a way that makes it easy even for non-experts.
Tabula lets you describe the connections between events, actions and state transitions in an easily understood
table format.
- Significantly speeds up workflow when developing sequential control programs
- Easy to define context dependent machine sequences
- Reduces coding errors
- Eliminates 90% of the effort of coding
- You can test/simulate your logic within Tabula
- Detects common errors
- Works seamlessly with SPLat Builder
Tabula on YouTube
A brief overview
A series of 5 videos, more in-depth.
Tabula documentation
If you prefer to read rather than watch a video, the Tabula documentation is tutorial in nature and available online. Tabula event-action programming.
System requirements
Tabula for SPLat works on all Windows versions from Windows XP to Win7.
Download Tabula for SPLat V1.3.024
Installation
- Click the link above, download and save the file where you can find it. You will get an exe file with a name similar to "tabula_s_setup_1-0-016.exe"
- Double-click the file
- Follow the prompts. The program will install in default folder C:\Program Files\SPLat\tabula_s.
- In 64-bit operating systems some users have reported that the program may only run if, the first time you run it, you right-click the icon and run it as administrator.
Our testing does not show this problem. Please let us know if you encounter this problem. - Others have reported the following way to make it run in Vista 64:
- Right click the short cut icon
- Select Properties
- In properties, select the Compatibility tab
- Select XP
Revision History
The revision history for Tabula for SPLat is available here.