Technical Appendix 
7-1   SINUMERIK 801 
  Start-Up 
Technical Appendix    7 
 
 
 
 
7.1    List of Machine Data 
 
Data type    BOOLEAN      Machine data bit (1 or 0) 
  BYTE        Integer values (from – 128 to 127) 
    DOUBLE       Real and integer values   
          (from ± 2.23 x 10
–308
 to ± 1.79 x 10
308
) 
    DWORD       Integer values (from – 2.147 x 10
9
 to 2.147 x 10
9
 ) 
   STRING    Character string (max. 16 characters) consisting of 
          upper–case letters with digits and underscore 
    UNSIGNED WORD  Integer values (from 0 to 65535) 
    SIGNED WORD    Integer values (from – 32768 to 32767) 
    UNSIGNED DWORD  Integer values (from 0 to 4294967295) 
    SIGNED DWORD    Integer values (from – 2147483648 to 2147483647) 
    WORD        Hex values (from 0000 to FFFF) 
    DWORD       Hex values (from 00000000 to FFFFFFFF) 
    FLOAT DWORD    Real values (from ±1.18 x 10
–38
 to ± 3.4 x 10
38) 
 
Activation conditions 
  PO(Power On)    Data active when system power on; 
    RE(Reset)      Data active whey system is reset 
  CF(Configuration)     Active when “Data Active” soft menu is enabled; 
    IM(Immediate)    Immediately active