Display Type - Siemens SIMATIC CP 340 User Manual

Display type

The table below describes the possible display types for the values of the variables. Display
types N and P are exceptions and are explained below the table.
The display type supports both uppercase and lowercase letters.
Table 2- 18 Display types in the conversion statement
Display type Associated data type
A DATE, WORD
C CHAR, BYTE
WORD
DWORD
ARRAY OF CHAR
ARRAY OF BYTE
D DATE, WORD
F REAL, DWORD
H All data types incl.
ARRAY OF BYTE
I INT, WORD
DINT, DWORD
N WORD (text number)
(1)
P INT, WORD
(2)
R REAL, DWORD
S STRING
T TIME, DWORD
(1)
U BYTE
WORD
DWORD
X BOOL
BYTE
WORD
DWORD
PtP coupling and configuration of CP 340
Manual, 04/2011, A5E00369892-03
Default display
10.06.1992 (German)
A, B
AB
ABCD
ABCDE ...
ABCDE ...
1996–06–10 (American)
0.123456
In accordance with the
data type
–32767
–2147483647
Message text output
Set page number
0.12E–04
Text output
2d_3h_10m_5s_250ms
255
65535
4294967295
1
11101100
11001... (16)
11001... (32)
Basic Principles of Serial Data Transmission
2.7 Parameterization Data
Width of the default Description
display
10 German
date format
1 Alphanumeric characters
2
4
–
–
10 Date format according to
ICE 61131-3
8 Floating point, without
exponent
In accordance with Hexadecimal format
the data type
Max. 6 Integer range
Max. 11
– Integer 0 to 999
5 –
8 Floating point, with
exponent
– Text strings
Max. 22 Duration (negative
duration is identified by a
leading (-) minus sign)
Max. 3 Integer range, unsigned
Max. 5
Max. 10
1 Binary format
8
16
32
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