User Manual

Introducing the powerful and flexible S7-1200
1.6 New features
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Manual, 03/2014, A5E02486774-AF
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1.6
New features
The following features are new in this release:
● The S7-1200 supports new Organization Blocks (OBs) (Page 89) with differences in
priority levels and interrupts.
● The Web server (Page 193) now supports the display of standard Web pages and user-
defined Web pages from a mobile device as well as from a PC. The standard Web pages
are available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Simplified Chinese with
this release.
● The "Download in Run" (Page 272) feature now supports a maximum of twenty blocks
that you can download in RUN mode. You can also add tags and modify tags in existing
data blocks and function blocks and download the modified data blocks in RUN mode.
● The online and diagnostic tools of STEP 7 provide the means to perform a firmware
update (Page 269) of your CPU, signal modules, communication modules, and attached
signal or communication board.
● STEP 7 includes a trace and logic analyzer function (Page 274) that you can use with the
V4.0 S7-1200 CPUs. With this feature, you can configure specific data that you want to
trace and record when the CPU meets a trigger condition that you define. The CPU
stores the recorded data, and STEP 7 provides tools for retrieving and analyzing the
recorded data.
● New programming instructions:
–
Set tag on signal edge:
R_TRIG, F_TRIG
–
Write local time:
WR_LOC_T
–
String maximum length:
MAX_LEN
–
Time of day interrupts:
SET_TINTL, CAN_TINT, ACT_TINT, QRY_TINT
–
Process recipes:
RecipeExport, RecipeImport
–
Address handling:
LOG2GEO, RD_ADDR
–
Motion control:
MC_WriteParam, MC_ReadParam
–
Enable / disable password
: ENDIS_PW
● HSC improvements to allow any HSC instruction input or output to be assigned to any
built-in or SB digital input
● PTO/PWM improvements to allow any PTO/PWM instruction input or output to be
assigned to any built-in or SB digital output
● Enhanced library features, including versioning