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5.5 Interrupt response time 
  CPU 31xC and CPU 31x, Technical Data 
5-20  Manual, 01/2006 Edition, A5E00105475-06 
5.5  5.5 Interrupt response time 
5.5.1  Overview 
Definition of interrupt response time 
The interrupt response time is the time that expires between the first occurrence of an 
interrupt signal and the call of the first interrupt OB instruction. Generally valid: Higher-
priority interrupts take priority. This means that the interrupt response time is increased by 
the program processing time of the higher-priority interrupt OBs and the interrupt OBs of 
equal priority which have not yet been executed (queued). 
Process/diagnostic interrupt response times of the CPUs 
Table 5-13  Process and diagnostic interrupt response times  
  Process interrupt response times  Diagnostic interrupt response 
times 
CPU  External 
 min. 
External 
 Max. 
Integrated I/O 
Max. 
Min.  Max. 
CPU 312  0.5 ms  0,8 ms  -  0.5 ms  1,0 ms 
CPU 312C  0.5 ms  0,8 ms  0,6 ms  0.5 ms  1,0 ms 
CPU 313C  0,4 ms  0,6 ms  0.5 ms  0,4 ms  1,0 ms 
CPU 313C-2  0,4 ms  0,7 ms  0.5 ms  0,4 ms  1,0 ms 
CPU 314  0,4 ms  0,7 ms  -  0,4 ms  1,0 ms 
CPU 314C-2  0,4 ms  0,7 ms  0.5 ms  0,4 ms  1,0 ms 
CPU 315-2 DP 
CPU 315-2 PN/DP 
0,4 ms  0,7 ms  -  0,4 ms  1,0 ms 
CPU 317-2 DP 
CPU 317-2 PN/DP 
0,2 ms  0,3 ms  -  0,2 ms  0,3 ms 
CPU 319-3 PN/DP  0.06 ms  0.10 ms  -  0.09 ms  0.12 ms