Siemens NET Sapi

The Siemens Sapi-S7 Driver was designed specifically for use with Siemens S7 300 and 400 PLCs. This driver implements the so called S7 communications protocol, using the Siemens SAPI-S7 (S7 Simple Application Programming Interface) library.

The S7 protocol is a layer 7 communications protocol. It can be used on Profibus, MPI and Ethernet networks. The library SAPI-S7 (S732.DLL) is automatically installed when you install one of the products of the SIMATIC NET Software CD.

 

To access MPI and PROFIBUS networks, a Siemens CP board (CP5611, CP5613, CP5614) is required.

For Ethernet networks, dedicated Siemens Ethernet boards or also standard Ethernet boards can be used, but, in this last case, the installation of the libraries Softnet-S7 for Industrial Ethernet is required.

 

Before using the Supervisor driver, you must configure, using the specific Siemens Software, an "Access point", corresponding to the PC board, a VFD (Virtual Field Device) on the board (by default the VFD is called Application or OPC Server), and the connection list on the VFD (each connection corresponds to a PLC of the network).

 

Release

11.4.1.1 DBL262

 

Interface Device

All PLC S7 and CP Comm. Boards (CP5611, CP5613, CP5614)

 

Manufacturer

Siemens

 

Requirement/Description

Siemens - SAPI S7 Protocol for any Siemens card (Siemens CP board (CP5611, CP5613,

CP5614). Based on SAPI SoftNet Library

 

License Code

License Code Not required

 

Import Tags

Support Import Tags

 

Operating System

 

Downloads

 

 

S7 SAPI

 

 

Requires Runtime license option activation for 11.4 desktop versions

 

WARINING:

This Diver has a limited warranty and could be not completely supported by Progea Support Team. Before use it, you should check if the manufacturer still support the hardware devices, or contact  Progea for more information.

 

 

For more information on this driver please refer to the help relating to the driver in Movicon 11.