Commissioning
8.5 Commissioning PROFIBUS DP
S7-300, CPU 31xC and CPU 31x: Installation
8-30 Operating Instructions, Edition 08/2004, A5E00105492-05
Address areas of transfer memory
In STEP 7, configure the I/O address areas:
• You can configure up to 32 I/O address areas.
• Maximum length per address area is 32 bytes.
• You can configure a maximum of 244 input bytes and 244 outputs bytes.
The table below shows the principle of address areas. You can also find this figure in the
STEP 7 configuration.
Table 8-10 Configuration example for the address areas of transfer memory
Type Master
address
Type Slave
address
Length Unit Consistency
1 E 222 A 310 2 BYTE Unit
2 A 0 E 13 10 Word Total length
:
32
Address areas in the
DP master CPU
Address areas in the
DP slave CPU
These address area parameters have to
be the same for DP master and DP slave.