Commissioning 
  8.6 Commissioning PROFINET IO 
S7-300, CPU 31xC and CPU 31x: Installation 
Operating Instructions, Edition 08/2004, A5E00105492-05 
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PROFINET IO address areas of the CPUs 
Table 8-11  PROFINET IO address areas of the CPUs 
Address area  315-2 PN/DP  317-2 PN/DP 
PROFINET address area,  
 inputs and outputs respectively 
2048 bytes  8192 bytes 
Number of those in process image  
 for I/Os 
Byte 0 to 127  Bytes 0 to 255 
1
 
1
 At a CPU 317-2 PN/DP with FW version 2.3.0 or higher, you can set a maxim number of 2047 bytes 
for the process image. Default setting of the CPU is byte 0 to 255. 
Diagnostics addresses occupy in the input address range 1 byte each for the IO controller, 
the PN interface and the IO devices (header module at slot 0), and for each module without 
user data within the device (power module of ET 200S, for example). You can use these 
addresses, for example, to read module-specific diagnostics data records by calling SFB 52. 
The diagnostic addresses are specified in your configuration. If you do not specify any 
diagnostic addresses, STEP 7 assigns these DP diagnostic addresses in ascending order, 
starting at the highest byte address. 
8.6.2  Configuring and commissioning the PROFINET IO system 
Overview 
There are several ways for you to start with commissioning the PROFINET IO interface of 
the CPU, and then the PROFINET IO system: 
•  Online via MPI/ DP interface 
•  Online via switch and PN interface 
•  Offline, by saving the data to an MMC in SIMATIC Manager on your PG, and then 
inserting the MMC into the CPU