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Notes on use........................................................................................................................................... 5

Editing devices and networks .................................................................................................................. 6

3.1

General notes on devices and networks................................................................................... 6

Programming PLC .................................................................................................................................. 7

4.1

General Notes on PLC Programming and on Acceptance .......................................................7

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Siemens provides products and solutions with industrial security functions that support the
secure operation of plants, systems, machines and networks.
In order to protect plants, systems, machines and networks against cyber threats, it is
necessary to implement and continuously maintain a holistic, state-of-the-art industrial
security concept. Siemens products and solutions only form one element of such a concept.
Customer is responsible to prevent unauthorized access to its plants, systems, machines
and networks. Systems, machines and components should only be connected to the
enterprise network or the internet if and to the extent necessary and with appropriate security
measures (e.g. use of firewalls and network segmentation) in place.
Additionally, Siemens guidance on appropriate security measures should be taken into
account. For more information about industrial security, please visit
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Siemens products and solutions undergo continuous development to make them more
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Content
Notes that could not be taken into account in the online help and the manual.

The manual as PDF file

The "SIMATIC Safety - Configuring and Programming" manual was stored in the installation
folder of STEP 7 Professional or STEP 7 Basic in the "Manuals" subfolder during installation
of the STEP 7 Safety optional package.

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3.1

General notes on devices and networks

Roaming User Profiles not supported

You cannot use STEP 7 Safety in a roaming user profile. The software has only limited
functionality under these circumstances. Contact your domain administrator if you have a
roaming user profile.

Installation of HSPs
Make that all HSPs required in the project are installed before you work with the project.

Configuring phase shifting for the F-OB

Assign phase shift parameters for an F-OB using the following formula:
Phase shift < Max_Cyc - Cyclic interrupt time

Assigning F-destination addresses to fail-safe modules with SIMATIC Safety

When using an F-CPU S7-300/400, it is not possible to assign F-destination addresses to
the fail-safe modules behind an IE/PB Link.

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General Notes on PLC Programming and on Acceptance

Content
Notes that could not be taken into account in the online help and the manual.

What do you need to observe with regard to the installation of STEP 7 Safety?
After the installation of STEP 7 Safety, your safety program will be shown as inconsistent in
the Safety Administration Editor. Initiate compilation of the safety program. You will obtain a
consistent safety program as a result. The collective F-signature of your safety program
remains unchanged.

Online functions
It is not possible to open F-blocks via the Lifelist with STEP 7 Safety. You have to have
the corresponding project opened offline in order to use all of the online functions for
F-blocks.
Use the Safety Administration Editor for the offline-online comparison if you wish to view
the checksums of F-blocks.

Upgrading to STEP 7 Safety V14

After upgrading a project that contains S7-300/400 F-CPUs, we recommend executing
the command "Compile > Software (rebuild all blocks)".
The name of the F-I/O is a component of the name of the associated F-I/O DB. In earlier
versions of STEP 7 Safety, it was not always ensured that this component was identical
to the name of the F-I/O. This is corrected with the upgrade to STEP 7 Safety V14. This
does not change the functionality or the collective signature of your safety program.
However, since the names of the F-I/O DBs have changed, you should generate an upto-date safety summary after the upgrade and add it to your acceptance documents.

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Supplement to the "Know-how protection" and "Reuse of F-blocks" sections

S7-1200/1500 F-CPUs
The following special features apply to STEP 7 Safety V14:
You cannot create a type in the project library or in a global library from a know-howprotected F-block.
Solution: Use the master copies or projects as delivery form.
When you call other user-defined blocks in a know-how protected F-block, use the option
to sort the know-how protected F-block and the user-defined block it contains as group
(folder) in the project tree. The following rules apply:
The called blocks must be multi-instances.
The called blocks should be know-how-protected.
If you wish to continue to use the know-how-protected blocks, store the group (folder) as
master copy.
If you wish to continue to use the know-how-protected blocks in another F-CPU, also
store the group (folder) as master copy.

Supplement to the "MOVE: Move value (STEP 7 Safety V14)" section

In the basic state, the instruction box contains an output (OUT1). The number of outputs can
be expanded. The inserted outputs are numbered in ascending order on the box. During
execution, the content of the operand at the IN input is transferred to all available outputs.
The instruction box cannot be expanded if operands with F-compliant PLC data types (UDT)
are transferred.

Supplement to the "CTD: Count down (STEP 7 Safety V14)" and CTUD: Count up and down (STEP 7
Safety V14)" sections
If you use the CTD or CTUD instruction with version 1.1 in a know-how-protected block, you
must open the block by entering the password before compiling in order to change the
version of the CTD or CTUD instruction to a version other than V1.1.
The same applies if you want to change the version of the CTD or CTUD instruction from a
version other than V1.1 to version V1.1.

Compiling the safety program

The collective F-signature is determined in STEP 7 Safety V14 when you compile the safety
program and shown in the Safety Administration Editor under "Code signature". The
collective F-signature is valid but the safety program can still be inconsistent. This is the
case when the hardware configuration is not up-to-date (compiled).
Compile the hardware configuration to obtain a consistent safety program. The collective
F-signature does not change as a result.

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