Setting The Card Type - Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 System Manual

SIMATIC memory card

14.2 Setting the card type

14.2 Setting the card type
Introduction
You can use the SIMATIC Memory Card as a program card or as a firmware update card.
Note
Password to protect confidential PLC configuration data
If you want to transfer the password to protect confidential PLC configuration data to a CPU
without using TIA Portal, you can also use a SIMATIC Memory Card for this function.
For more information about assigning the password via SIMATIC Memory Card, refer to the
Communication Function Manual
(https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/59192925), in the section Assign
password via SIMATIC Memory Card.
Procedure using STEP 7
1. To set the card type, insert the SIMATIC Memory Card in the card reader of the programming
device.
2. Select the "SIMATIC Card Reader" folder in the project tree.
3. In the properties of the selected SIMATIC Memory Card, specify the card type:
• Program card
You use a program card as an external load memory for the SIMATIC Drive Controller. The
program card contains the complete user program for the CPU and the configuration of
the SINAMICS Integrated. The SIMATIC Drive Controller transfers the user program and
drive configuration from the load memory to the work memory. The user program and
automatic speed control run in the work memory.
The following folders are created on the SIMATIC Memory Card:
– SIMATIC.S7S
– SINAMICS.S7S (if a SINAMICS Integrated is configured)
• Firmware update card
You can save the firmware of a CPU and SINAMICS Integrated on a SIMATIC Memory Card.
This enables you to perform a firmware update with the help of a specially prepared
SIMATIC Memory Card.
The following folder is created on the SIMATIC Memory Card: FWUPDATE.S7S
You can find information on how to update the SIMATIC Drive Controller in SIMATIC Drive
Controller firmware update (Page 319) You can find information on how to update the
firmware of the DRIVE-CLiQ component in DRIVE-CLiQ component firmware update
(Page 327).
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