Siemens TCP/IP Unsolicited Ethernet OPC Server

Overview

The Siemens TCP/IP Ethernet Unsolicited Device Driver was designed specifically for use with 32 bit OPC Server products and the Windows XP/2000/NT operating systems running on Intel microprocessor based computers.

This driver will act as a simulated Siemens PLC. It is intended for simulation of Siemens S7-300. Up to 256 virtual devices are supported. The mode of communications is S7 Messaging on Industrial Ethernet (ISO 8073 Class 0) over TCP/IP as defined in RFC1006. The driver requires no special libraries or hardware. A standard Ethernet card is all that is needed. Devices require specialized ladder programming to communicate with this driver (see Master Device Configuration).

This product is part of a Suite and when it is purchased you will receive all drivers in the suite. Siemens OPC Server Suite.

Devices

Supported Devices

Device	Note
Simulated S7-300

Features

Specific Driver Features

Specific

Supports 256 virtual devices.
Supported Commands: SFB14-GET, SFB15-PUT

General

Multi-threaded design ensures optimum performance
Full Time On-line operation allows on the fly changes
Channel Diagnostics with protocol display
OPC Diagnostic feature provides a real-time and historical view of OPC events that occur between any OPC client and the server
Additional System Tags provided for monitoring and diagnostics
Free OPC Test Client provided
Modem support included on all Serial port drivers
CSV file import and export of Server tags for easy configuration on large projects
Auto Demotion of Devices
Supports running as a Windows service
Supports direct scaling of device data which allows raw device data to be converted to engineering units for OPC client applications
Automatically backup project file on save
Includes a built-in User Manager that allows complete control over what types of functionality each individual user can access
Allows the user to specifically select a NIC card for use with any Ethernet driver or serial driver running in Ethernet Encapsulation mode
Supports up to 16 concurrent serial ports and PC card configurations

Client

OPC DA 1.0
OPC DA 2.05a
OPC DA 3.0

DDE CF-Text
NetDDE
AdvancedDDE
FastDDE for Wonderware's Intouch

3rd Party Client Support

To see a list of HMI's and Clients that we support go to our HMI / Client Support page.

Required

Required Software and Hardware

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 2000 (SP4 or greater) (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2003 (SP2 or greater) (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows XP (SP2 or greater)
Windows Vista Business/Ultimate (32 bit and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit)

PC Hardware

Minimum

400 Mhz Pentium CPU
128 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended

600 Mhz Pentium CPU
512 Megs of RAM
100 Megs of Free Hard Drive Space

Hardware Requirements

For Device and Hardware Requirements see the Devices tab.
Hardware Accessories

Protocol

Communication Protocol

S7 Messaging on Industrial Ethernet (ISO 8073 Class 0) over TCP/IP as defined in RFC1006.

VB

Visual Basic

KEPServerEX Visual Basic OPC Client
Complex and Simple Visual Basic OPC Client Examples
Using Modems and Visual Basic with KEPServerEX.
Download the Modem and VB Example with Source Code
Knowledge Base

Help

Help/Links

Revisions

Siemens TCP/IP Unsolicited Ethernet OPC Driver Revisions

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.280.435.0 (04/30/08)

Siemens TCP/IP Unsolicited Ethernet (V4.1.21.0)

- Fixed issue where creating a string tag with data type set to "Default" resulted in a syntax error rather than setting the data type to 'String' and validating the tag.
- Fixed dialog issue where setting a rack number or CPU slot exceeding 256 would display an incorrect error message.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.270.416.0 (09/27/07)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue where server menu buttons like 'New', 'Open', 'Exit' would become permanently disabled when attempting to perform auto tag generation on a driver that had missing runtime dependencies.
- Fixed issue that could occur when multiple items with the same scan rate are read by exception and another item is added/asynchronously read/removed at that same rate. This issue resulted in stale data for those tags read by exception.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.264.401 (06/01/07)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue in the driver library where it was possible to delete a tag prior to stopping it. This would result in the accessing of invalid memory which could eventually result in an exception that would prevent a channel from processing any tags.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.210.367 (11/17/06)

All Drivers

- Fixed issue where a rapid sequence of item add, sync read, and item remove requests could result in bad OPC quality for some items included in a block sync read and/or sync read timeouts.
- Fixed issue with Unsolicited UDP Mode Ethernet Encapsulation mode, where driver would stop receiving unsolicited messages after sending a message.

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.201.359 (07/19/06)

Siemens TCP/IP Unsolicited Ethernet (V4.01.13)

- Fixed the bug where using multiple FB15 [PUT] blocks with data type INT caused and anomaly within the driver.
- Fixed read/write issue to S7-200 Analog Inputs (AI).

Driver updates below coincide with Server Release V4.150.304 (11/12/04)

Siemens TCP/IP Unsolicited Ethernet (V4.00.8)

- New Driver