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Expanded Toolset
01 November 2012
TwinCAT 3 is now available for download from the Beckhoff website at www.beckhoff.com/TwinCAT3.

The greatly expanded toolset available via eXtended Automation (XA), which was introduced with TwinCAT 3, is now available in all Beckhoff markets.
The innovations that TwinCAT 3 provides for automation technology range from support of new programming environments for modular engineering concepts, to a high-performance runtime that actively supports the latest IT technologies such as multi-core processors. The engineering has been integrated into the state-of-the-art and future-safe Microsoft Visual Studio platform. This also places numerous modern software engineering tools at the automation specialist’s disposal.
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