Foreword - Siemens SIMATIC NET CP 243-1 IT Technical Manual

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Foreword

Purpose of this manual
This manual will be helpful when you use your CP 243-1 IT communications proc-
essor. It provides you with information on how to communicate with this communi-
cations processor via Industrial Ethernet and how to use the Information Technol-
ogy functions.
Prerequisites
A knowledge of this manual as well as the manual on SIMATIC S7-200 program-
mable controllers is required for understanding the functions of the CP 243-1 IT. In
addition, you will need a basic knowledge of such topics as TCP/IP, FTP, E-Mail,
HTML, Web Browser and Java.
Target group
This manual is written for engineers, programmers, commissioning personnel and
maintenance personnel with a general knowledge of automation and communica-
tion systems as well as user interface systems.
Sample program
This manual contains a sample program which gives you an example of how to
program your CP 243-1 IT. This program was prepared with STEP 7-Micro/WIN 32
V3.2.3 and will run on an S7-200 CPU (type 224). If you want to run this sample
program on another S7-200 CPU, you may have to adjust this CPU to the configu-
ration expected by our program.
CP 243-1 IT
J31069-D0429-U001-A0-7618
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