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1   OVERVIEW 
 
(3)   Comparison of PLC CPU area control and performance 
 
Item  Q170MSCPU  Q170MSCPU-S1  Q170MCPU 
PLC CPU area 
Q03UDCPU or 
equivalent (30k steps) 
Q06UDHCPU or 
equivalent (60k steps) 
Q03UDCPU or equivalent 
(20k steps) 
Control method  Stored program repeat operation 
I/O control mode  Refresh mode 
Sequence control language 
Relay symbol language (ladder), logic symbolic language (list), 
MELSAP3 (SFC), MELSAP-L, Structured text (ST) 
Processing speed 
(sequence instruction) 
LD instruction  0.02 μs  0.0095 μs  0.02 μs 
MOV instruction  0.04 μs  0.019 μs  0.04 μs 
PC MIX value (instruction/μs)  28  60  28 
Floating point addition  0.12 μs  0.057 μs  0.12 μs 
Total number of instructions  858 
Operation (floating point operation) instruction  Yes 
Character string processing instruction  Yes 
PID instruction  Yes 
Special function instruction (Trigonometric function, 
square root, exponential operation, etc.) 
Yes 
Constant scan  0.5 to 2000ms (Setting available in 0.5ms unit.) 
Program capacity 
30k steps 
(120k bytes) 
60k steps 
(240k bytes) 
20k steps 
(80k bytes) 
CPU shared memory 
QCPU standard memory  8k bytes 
Multiple CPU high speed 
transmission area 
32k bytes 
No. of I/O device points (X/Y)  8192 points 
No. of I/O points (X/Y) 
4096 points 
512 points 
(Up to 320 points (64 
points × 5 modules) is 
usable with I/O module.)  
Internal relay (M) 
Points by default 
(changeable by parameters) 
8192 points 
Latch relay (L)  8192 points 
Link relay (B)  8192 points 
Timer (T)  2048 points 
Retentive timer (ST)  0 points 
Counter (C)  1024 points 
Data register (D)  12288 points 
Link register (W)  8192 points 
Annunciator (F)  2048 points 
Edge relay (V)  2048 points 
Link special relay (SB)  2048 points 
Link special register (SW)  2048 points 
File register (R, ZR)  98304 points  393216 points  98304 points 
Step relay (S)  8192 points 
Index register/Standard device register (Z)  20 points 
Index register (Z) 
(32-bit modification specification of ZR device) 
Up to 10 points (Z0 to Z18) 
(Index register (Z) is used in double words.) 
Pointer (P)  4096 points 
Interrupt pointer (I)  256 points 
Special relay (SM)  2048 points 
Special register (SD)  2048 points 
Function input (FX)  16 points 
Function output (FY)  16 points