Table of contents 
 
S7-400H 
System Manual, 03/2012, A5E00267695-11 
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Figures 
Figure 2-1  Operating objectives of redundant automation systems..............................................................25 
Figure 2-2  Integrated automation solutions
 with SIMATIC............................................................................27 
Figure 2-3 
Example of redundancy in a network without error....
..................................................................28 
Figure 2-4
  Example of redun
dancy in a 1-out-of-2 system with error ...........................................................29 
Figure 2-5
  Example of redun
dancy in a 1-out-of-2 system with total failure .................................................29 
Figure 3-1 
Overvi
ew ......................................................................................................................................32 
Figure 3-2 
Hardware of the S7–400H bas
ic system......................................................................................34 
Figure 3-3 
User documentation for fault-tolerant systems
............................................................................40 
Figure 4-1 
Hardware assembly ..................................................................................................
...................42 
Figure 5-1
  Arrangem
ent of the control and display elements on CPU 41x-5H PN/DP.................................47 
Figure 5-2 
Jac
k connector.............................................................................................................................50 
Figure 5-3 
Mode switch positions..................................................................................................................60 
Figure 5-4 
Design of the memory
 card..........................................................................................................65 
Figure 7-1 
Diagnostics
 with CPU 41xH.........................................................................................................92 
Figure 7-2 
Diagnostics
 addresses for DP master and DP slave...................................................................93 
Figure 8-1
  Configuratio
n example of system redundancy with media redundancy ....................................105 
Figure 8-2
  S7-400
H system with IO devices connected in system redundancy.........................................106 
Figure 8-3 
System redundancy in different vi
ews .......................................................................................107 
Figure 8-4 
PN/IO with system redundancy.......................................................................................
...........109 
Figure 8-5 
PN/IO with system redundancy.......................................................................................
...........110 
Figure 9-1 
Properties 
- DP slave .................................................................................................................116 
Figure 10-1 
Memory areas of the S7-400H 
CPUs ........................................................................................117 
Figure 11-1 
Synchronizi
ng the subsystems ..................................................................................................122 
Figure 11-2
  System and o
perating states of the fault-tolerant system..........................................................130 
Figure 12-1 
Sequence of link-up and update ................................................................................................144 
Figure 12-2 
Update s
equence
...................................................................................................
....................145 
Figure 12-3
  Example of minimum si
gnal duration of an input signal during the update ...............................146 
Figure 12-4 
Meanings of the times relevant for updates
...............................................................................156 
Figure 12-5 
Correlation between the minimum I/O retention time and the maximum inhibit time for 
priority
 classes > 15 ...................................................................................................................160 
Figure 13-1 
Single-channel s
witched distributed I/O configuration at the PROFIBUS DP interface ............173 
Figure 13-2 
Single-channel s
witched distributed I/O configuration at the PROFINET interface...................174 
Figure 13-3 
Redundant I/O in central and expansi
on devices ......................................................................178 
Figure 13-4 
Redundant I/O in the one-sided DP slave
...........................................................................
......179 
Figure 13-5 
Redundant I/O in the switched DP sl
ave ...................................................................................180