Technical specifications
A.11 S7-200 SMART cables
S7-200 SMART
784 System Manual, V2.3, 07/2017, A5E03822230-AF
USB/PPI Multi-Master Cable
To use the USB cable, you must have STEP 7-Micro/WIN SMART V2.3 (or later) installed. It
is recommended that you use the USB cable only with S7-200 SMART CPUs firmware
version V2.3 (or later).
The USB cable does not support Freeport communications.
Note
If you use this cable with S7
-200 SMART CPU versions prior to V2.3, certain operations are
not possible (for example, dow
nloading the user program).
-PPI cable to the CPU's RS485 port forces the CPU to exit Freeport mode
and enable PPI mode. This allows STEP
7-Micro/WIN SMART V2.3 to regain control of the
Table A- 166 USB/PPI Multi-Master cable - Pin-outs for the RS-485 to USB Series "A" Connector
2 24 V Return (RS-485 logic
2 USB -DataM
8 Signal A (RxD/TxD-) - -