Communications configuring 
 
3-282  System- and communication configuring D7-SYS - SIMADYN D 
  Edition 12.2003 
This pointer is actually a pointer which includes a structure, which in 
addition to the pointer to the net data also has information for monitoring 
purposes. This data includes, for example, the sampling time, block 
class, byte/word swap. It has the connection comment "ZeigPuffer". 
3.24.4.6 Configuring information and instructions 
•  The telegram blocks as well as the read/write blocks must be 
configured in 
the same sampling time in order to ensure consistency 
(this is checked when initializing). 
•  Offset data must be carefully entered. 
a) For pointer-based communications, the configuring engineer must 
precisely observe the offset (in bytes) of the 16-bit value (INT) or 32-
bit value (REAL, DINT) to be addressed. 
b) The offset must always be smaller than the buffer size. 
Before accessing buffer data, a check is made as to whether the area 
(range) has been exceeded because of an offset which has been set 
too high. 
•  If data is transferred to a PROFIBUS-DP station or to a SIMATIC 
CPU, then bytes (for INT) and, where relevant, words of the value to 
be transferred (for REAL, DINT) must be swapped. 
The read/write blocks have a "Swap" connection – SWP – for this 
specific purpose. 
•  In order to transfer telegrams via an interface, initially, it is sufficient to 
just configure the telegram block with the appropriate lengths data 
(CRV_T, CTV_P and S7RD_P, S7WR_P). Read/write blocks still don't 
have to be configured. This means that the interface can be tested or 
the computation time load through the interface configured using, for 
example, few resources. 
3.24.4.7  Examples of CFC screenshots