Siemens S7-1200 - Page 173

Programming concepts
6.3 Using blocks to structure your program
S7-1200 Programmable controller
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The program cycle OB contains your main program. You can include more than one program
cycle OB in your user program. During RUN mode, the program cycle OBs execute at the
lowest priority level and can be interrupted by all other event types. The startup OB does not
interrupt the program cycle OB because the CPU executes the startup OB before going to
RUN mode.
After finishing the processing of the program cycle OBs, the CPU immediately executes the
program cycle OBs again. This cyclic processing is the "normal" type of processing used for
programmable logic controllers. For many applications, the entire user program is located in
a single program cycle OB.
You can create other OBs to perform specific functions, such as for handling interrupts and
errors, or for executing specific program code at specific time intervals. These OBs interrupt
the execution of the program cycle OBs.
Use the "Add new block" dialog to create new OBs in your user program.
Interrupt handling is always
event
-driven. When such
an event occurs, the CPU
interrupts the execution of
the user program and cal
ls
the OB that was configured
to handle that event. After
finishing the execution of
the interrupting OB, the
CPU resumes the
execution of the user
program at the point of
interruption.
The CPU determines the order for handling interrupt events by priority. You can assign
multiple interrupt events to the same priority class. For more information, refer to the topics
on organization blocks (Page 85) and execution of the user program (Page 77).