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News Release from: Siemens Automation and Drives | Subject: Simatic S7-400 high-performance controllers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 March 2006
Controllers have integral Profinet
interface
Three high-performance controllers with integral Profinet interface re suitable for demanding automation tasks, and for safety-related applications.
Siemens Automation and Drives (A and D) has developed three new Simatic S7-400 high-performance controllers with integral Profinet interface The CPU 414-3 PN/DP and CPU 416-3 PN/DP are suitable for demanding automation tasks, and the CPU 416F-3 PN/DP is also suitable for safety-related applications
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The powerful data communication is based on the Profinet ASIC Ertec 400.
In addition, the new CPUs are characterised by high instruction execution performance.
The new Profinet CPUs can be programmed over Industrial Ethernet from a centralised PC or programming device.
Devices on the lower-level Profibus can also be accessed from here - without having to reconnect the programming device.
Configuring, engineering and diagnostics are handled with the Simatic Step 7 engineering software, and the safety-related section of the CPU 416F-3 PN/DP program is created with the option package Distributed Safety V5.4.
The integral Profinet ASIC Ertec 400 offers on the one hand high communication performance, and on the other, two Ethernet ports.
This means the new S7-400 controllers can be integrated into linear Profinet structures in addition to the previous hierarchical configuration.
As well as the Profinet IO and Profinet CBA communication protocols, the CPUs also support TCP/IP, UDP and ISO on TCP.
For the first time within the product range of Simatic controllers, a Web server has been integrated that uses the Profinet interface to provide CPU diagnostics information over the intranet/Internet.
Web clients such as a host computer or a personal digital assistant (PDS) access this information using a standard Web browser.
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