Integration of Modbus C Library using Go

Abstract

Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Introduction Modbus is a serial communication protocol which was developed by Modicon in order to be used by the logic controllers. It is used to transmit information over the serial lines connecting electronic devices. It is an open source protocol and is used by various manufacturers to implement into their own equipment. Golang commonly known as Go is a Statically typed programming language which was developed by Google. It is very similar to C programming language in terms of syntax but is accompanied by various powerful tools that make it stand out over other programming languages. Memory safety, structural typing, garbage collection and CSP- Style concurrency are some of its specialties. Cgo helps Golang packages to call on C code. Given a file implementing Go code, Cgo outputs both C and Go files which is a result of a combined Cgo package. Although Cgo is hard to implement and can have multiple complications, sometimes it is the only option the user has to take.