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Supported device types and versions
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This protocol supports a data reading/writing from the control PLC machines Siemens SIMATIC:
- types S7-300 and S7-400 equipped by an ethernet interface for the communication S7 ISO over TCP communication .
- types S7-1200, S7-1500
- Siemens LOGO
- Siemens Microbox
Note: communication via Profinet/Profibus adapter ACCON-NetLink-PRO compact produced by company DELTALOGIC has been verified. Communication with multiple S-300 series PLCs on Profibus worked after firmware upgrade of adapter to version V2.54 (31. march 2015) with adapter's BIOS version V2.39 (7. June 2011). When the adapter's firmware was version V2.37 (8. august 2011), communication could not be correctly established.
Note: communication with PLC Siemens LOGO was tested. A part of memory that is accessible for reading/writing is the V area that which is seen as DB1.
Note: the protocol has a "big-endian" data representation.
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When a TCP Redundant communication line is configured, you can configure an IP address and port of a backup device. If a communication process lost the connection or is unable to connect to the device, it will switch periodically between the configured devices. KOM process tries to connect to a primary device at first.
Note: Multiple IP addresses of primary/backup device devices can also be configured (separated by commas or semicolons).
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Parameter | Meaning | Unit / size | Default value |
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| Siemens Simatic rack number. Rack 0 is most often used. Note: when using the ACCON-NetLink-PRO compact adapter, the Rack/Slot parameters must be set so that the MPI address of the S7 with which the D2000 KOM process communicates is equal to 32 * Rack + Slot. It is therefore necessary to create a separate line with specific Rack/Slot values for each S7. It is also necessary to set "RFC Routing over CPs with TSAP" to ON in the adapter web interface. | 0 to 7 | 0 |
| Siemens Simatic slot number. Slot 2 is most often used. | 0 to 31 | 0 |
S7 Subnet ID-part 1 (hex) | S7 subnet address sent as a part of Remote TSAP if parameter Use long TSAP is set to True | 0x0 to 0xFFFF | 0 |
S7 Subnet ID-part 2 (hex) | S7 subnet address sent as a part of Remote TSAP if parameter Use long TSAP is set to True | 0x0 to 0xFFFF | 0 |
| The parameter allows the use of redundant PLCs, which may differ in the settings of some parameters (Rack, Slot, S7 Subnet ID). If its value is True, the primary and secondary parameters are used alternately when connecting to the PLC using the specified IP addresses. | - | False |
Connection Resource (hex) | Connection resource, it enters as MSB byte to the calculation of the value of Remote TSAP at initialization of ISO Connection-request. See the description of parameter Use long TSAP. Note: in the specific case, when two systems (one of them D2000) needed to communicate with S7-300, they each had to have a different Connection resource, otherwise after sending the initial sequence of D2000 KOM process, the connection broke: /TSK1/Sending CR-TPDU: CLASS=0, SRC-REF=0x0001, TPDU size=1024, SRC-TSAP=10-00, DST-TSAP=03-02 /TSK1/OUT-<03><00><00><16><11><E0><00><00><00><01><00><C0><01><0A><C1><02><10><00><C2><02><03><02> recv error '10.94.11.237:102 (handle: 2888, objId: 2563271)' - WSA_ECONNRESET [ 10054] Task: L.N337-S7ExecTsk/TSK1/ After changing the Connection resource from 3 to 2, the communication started working. Note: according to Siemens documentation, the Connection Resource can be: - 0x01 - PG connection (intended for programming)
- 0x02 - OP connection (designed for operator panel)
- 0x03 - Other (another purpose, can be used for multiple connections)
- 0x10..0xDF - Connections with static or dynamic connection process (various purposes, each usable for one configured connection)
- 0xFD - S7 basic communication (typically connections from CPU to another module within the subnet)
| 0x0 to 0xFF | 3 |
| ISO Local TSAP (Transport Service Local Point). Source TSAP value during the initialization of ISO Connection-request. See the description of parameter Use long TSAP. | 0x0 to 0xFFFF | 0x1000 |
| ISO Source Reference. Value of SRC-REF during the initialization of ISO Connection-request. | 0 to 65535 | 1 |
| Enables a long format of local and remote TSAP which is sent during the connection setup phase. Short TSAP is 2 bytes long. Short local TSAP has the following format:Short remote TSAP has the following format:Long local TSAP is 28 bytes long. The last 2 bytes are higher and lower byte of parameter Local TSAP Full remote TSAP is 28 bytes long and it contains: | - | False |
| MPI/Profibus address sent as a part of Remote TSAP if parameter Use long TSAP is set to True | 0 to 126 | 1 |
ISO TPDU Size Variable Parameter | The maximum required size of ISO TPDU. The parameter value the initialization of ISO Connection-request. | 8192, 4096, 2048, 1024, 512, 256 or 128 bytes | 1024 bytes |
Nr. of Parallel Network Threads | Maximum parallel communication threads. Increase the value if there is a demand for more data read from the device in a shorter time. | 1 to 4 | 1 |
| The required time of one data reading cycle. | ms | 1000 ms |
| Maximal wait time on a reply from the device. | ms | 2500 ms |
| Delay before sending a data request. When a high data transfer rate is required, set 0 ms. | sec.ms | 20 ms |
| Delay before reconnection to the device if the connection has failed or some communication error has occurred. | sec.ms | 2 sec |
| When Timeout passes and communication error occurs in all threads, a communication error status is set on the stations. The FALSE state is set on the communication line. | sec.ms | 20 sec |
| Maximum PDU in bytes at S7 communication with the device. | 240, 480, 960 bytes | 480 bytes |
| Setting "Tcp No Delay" parameter causes the low-level socket option TCP_NODELAY to be set, thus turning off the default packet coalesce feature. | - | False |
| Activates debug info about the received values of I/O tags. Use this parameter only when communication must be debugged because it highly uses CPU and slows down the communication. | YES/NO | NO |
Debug I/O Binary Packets Info | Activates debug info about the binary content of packets. Use this parameter only when communication must be debugged because it highly uses CPU and slows down the communication. | YES/NO | NO |
| Activates basic debug info about requested data. | YES/NO | YES |
| Activates basic debug info about received packets. | YES/NO | YES |
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