《SiemensS7PLCCommunication》.pptVIP

Dirk Zimoch, EPICS Meeting April 2007, Hamburg Siemens S7 PLC Communication Theory of Operation PLC and IOC exchange blocks of PVs over TCP/IP. Blocks can have arbitrary length and layout. Example: Only complete data blocks can be transmitted. PLC and/or IOC send periodically or when values change. Any number of PLCs may be connected to one IOC. Driver setup Ask programmer of PLC for IP address and port. byte order: big endian or little endian. block size and send period PLC?IOC (100 msec ~ seconds). block size and send period IOC?PLC (100 msec ~ seconds). Give the PLC a name. Configure dri