Name: 6ES7516-3UN00-0AB0 Siemens S7-1500 Ethernet Module
Brand: Siemens
SKU: 6ES7516-3UN00-0AB0
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General information

Product type designation

CPU 1516TF-3 PN/DP

HW functional status

FS11

Firmware version

V3.1

● FW update possible

Yes

Product function

● I&M data

Yes; I&M0 to I&M3

● Isochronous mode

Yes; Distributed and central; with minimum OB 6x cycle of 375 µs (distributed) and 1 ms (central)

● SysLog

Yes

Engineering with

● STEP 7 TIA Portal configurable/integrated from version

V19 (FW V3.1) / V15 (FW V2.5) or higher

Configuration control

via dataset

Yes

Display

Screen diagonal [cm]

6.1 cm

Control elements

Number of keys

Mode selector switch

Supply voltage

Rated value (DC)

24 V

permissible range, lower limit (DC)

19.2 V

permissible range, upper limit (DC)

28.8 V

Reverse polarity protection

Yes

Mains buffering

● Mains/voltage failure stored energy time

5 ms

● Repeat rate, min.

1/s

Input current

Current consumption (rated value)

1.2 A

Current consumption, max.

1.5 A

Inrush current, max.

1.9 A; Rated value

I²t

0.4 A²·s

Power

Infeed power to the backplane bus

12 W

Power consumption from the backplane bus (balanced)

30 W

Power loss

Power loss, typ.

24 W

Memory

Number of slots for SIMATIC memory card

SIMATIC memory card required

Yes

Work memory

● integrated (for program)

3 Mbyte

● integrated (for data)

7.5 Mbyte

Load memory

● Plug-in (SIMATIC Memory Card), max.

32 Gbyte

Backup

● maintenance-free

Yes

CPU processing times

for bit operations, typ.

6 ns

for word operations, typ.

7 ns

for fixed point arithmetic, typ.

9 ns

for floating point arithmetic, typ.

37 ns

CPU-blocks

Number of elements (total)

8 000; Blocks (OB, FB, FC, DB) and UDTs

● Number range

1 … 60 999; subdivided into: number range that can be used by the user: 1 … 59 999, and number range of DBs created via SFC 86: 60 000 … 60 999

● Size, max.

7.5 Mbyte; For DBs with absolute addressing, the max. size is 64 KB

● Number range

0 … 65 535

● Size, max.

1 Mbyte

● Number range

0 … 65 535

● Size, max.

1 Mbyte

● Size, max.

1 Mbyte

● Number of free cycle OBs

100

● Number of time alarm OBs

● Number of delay alarm OBs

● Number of cyclic interrupt OBs

20; With minimum OB 3x cycle of 250 µs

● Number of process alarm OBs

● Number of DPV1 alarm OBs

● Number of isochronous mode OBs

● Number of technology synchronous alarm OBs

● Number of startup OBs

100

● Number of asynchronous error OBs

● Number of synchronous error OBs

● Number of diagnostic alarm OBs

Nesting depth

● per priority class

24; Up to 8 possible for F-blocks

Counters, timers and their retentivity

S7 counter

● Number

2 048

Retentivity

— adjustable

Yes

IEC counter

● Number

Any (only limited by the main memory)

Retentivity

— adjustable

Yes

S7 times

● Number

2 048

Retentivity

— adjustable

Yes

IEC timer

● Number

Any (only limited by the main memory)

Retentivity

— adjustable

Yes

Data areas and their retentivity

Retentive data area (incl. timers, counters, flags), max.

512 kbyte; In total; available retentive memory for bit memories, timers, counters, DBs, and technology data (axes): 472 KB

Extended retentive data area (incl. timers, counters, flags), max.

7.5 Mbyte; When using PS 6 0W 24/48/60 V DC HF

Flag

● Size, max.

16 kbyte

● Number of clock memories

8; 8 clock memory bit, grouped into one clock memory byte

Data blocks

● Retentivity adjustable

Yes

● Retentivity preset

Local data

● per priority class, max.

64 kbyte; max. 16 KB per block

Address area

Number of IO modules

8 192; max. number of modules / submodules

I/O address area

● Inputs

32 kbyte; All inputs are in the process image

● Outputs

32 kbyte; All outputs are in the process image

per integrated IO subsystem

— Inputs (volume)

8 kbyte

— Outputs (volume)

8 kbyte

per CM/CP

— Inputs (volume)

8 kbyte

— Outputs (volume)

8 kbyte

Subprocess images

● Number of subprocess images, max.

Hardware configuration

Number of distributed IO systems

64; A distributed I/O system is characterized not only by the integration of distributed I/O via PROFINET or PROFIBUS communication modules, but also by the connection of I/O via AS-i master modules or links (e.g. IE/PB-Link)

Number of DP masters

● integrated

● Via CM

8; A maximum of 8 CMs/CPs (PROFIBUS, PROFINET, Ethernet) can be inserted in total

Number of IO Controllers

● integrated

● Via CM

8; A maximum of 8 CMs/CPs (PROFIBUS, PROFINET, Ethernet) can be inserted in total

Rack

● Modules per rack, max.

32; CPU + 31 modules

● Number of lines, max.

PtP CM

● Number of PtP CMs

the number of connectable PtP CMs is only limited by the number of available slots

Time of day

Clock

● Type

Hardware clock

● Backup time

6 wk; At 40 °C ambient temperature, typically

● Deviation per day, max.

10 s; Typ.: 2 s

Operating hours counter

● Number

Clock synchronization

● supported

Yes

● to DP, master

Yes

● on DP, device

Yes

● in AS, master

Yes

● in AS, device

Yes

● on Ethernet via NTP

Yes

Interfaces

Number of PROFINET interfaces

Number of PROFIBUS interfaces

1. Interface

Interface types

● RJ 45 (Ethernet)

Yes; X1

● Number of ports

● integrated switch

Yes

Protocols

● IP protocol

Yes; IPv4

● PROFINET IO Controller

Yes

● PROFINET IO Device

Yes

● SIMATIC communication

Yes

● Open IE communication

Yes; Optionally also encrypted

● Web server

Yes

● Media redundancy

Yes

PROFINET IO Controller

Services

— Isochronous mode

Yes

— Direct data exchange

Yes; Requirement: IRT and isochronous mode (MRPD optional)

— IRT

Yes

— PROFIenergy

Yes; per user program

— Prioritized startup

Yes; Max. 32 PROFINET devices

— Number of connectable IO Devices, max.

256; In total, up to 1 000 distributed I/O devices can be connected via AS-i, PROFIBUS or PROFINET

— Of which IO devices with IRT, max.

— Number of connectable IO Devices for RT, max.

256

— of which in line, max.

256

— Number of IO Devices that can be simultaneously activated/deactivated, max.

8; in total across all interfaces

— Number of IO Devices per tool, max.

— Updating times

The minimum value of the update time also depends on communication share set for PROFINET IO, on the number of IO devices, and on the quantity of configured user data

— PROFINET Security Class

Update time for IRT

— for send cycle of 250 µs

250 μs to 4 ms; Note: In the case of IRT with isochronous mode, the minimum update time of 375 µs of the isochronous OB is decisive

— for send cycle of 500 µs

500 µs to 8 ms

— for send cycle of 1 ms

1 ms to 16 ms

— for send cycle of 2 ms

2 ms to 32 ms

— for send cycle of 4 ms

4 ms to 64 ms

— With IRT and parameterization of “odd” send cycles

Update time = set “odd” send clock (any multiple of 125 µs: 375 µs, 625 µs … 3 875 µs)

Update time for RT

— for send cycle of 250 µs

250 µs to 128 ms

— for send cycle of 500 µs

500 µs to 256 ms

— for send cycle of 1 ms

1 ms to 512 ms

— for send cycle of 2 ms

2 ms to 512 ms

— for send cycle of 4 ms

4 ms to 512 ms

PROFINET IO Device

Services

— Isochronous mode

— IRT

Yes

— PROFIenergy

Yes; per user program

— Shared device

Yes

— Number of IO Controllers with shared device, max.

— activation/deactivation of I-devices

Yes; per user program

— Asset management record

Yes; per user program

— PROFINET Security Class

SNMP Configuration and DCP Read Only

2. Interface

Interface types

● RJ 45 (Ethernet)

Yes; X2

● Number of ports

● integrated switch

Protocols

● IP protocol

Yes; IPv4

● PROFINET IO Controller

Yes

● PROFINET IO Device

Yes

● SIMATIC communication

Yes

● Open IE communication

Yes; Optionally also encrypted

● Web server

Yes

● Media redundancy

PROFINET IO Controller

Services

— Isochronous mode

— Direct data exchange

— IRT

— PROFIenergy

Yes; per user program

— Prioritized startup

— Number of connectable IO Devices, max.

32; In total, up to 1 000 distributed I/O devices can be connected via AS-i, PROFIBUS or PROFINET

— Number of connectable IO Devices for RT, max.

— of which in line, max.

— Number of IO Devices that can be simultaneously activated/deactivated, max.

8; in total across all interfaces

— Number of IO Devices per tool, max.

— Updating times

The minimum value of the update time also depends on communication share set for PROFINET IO, on the number of IO devices, and on the quantity of configured user data

— PROFINET Security Class

Update time for RT

— for send cycle of 1 ms

1 ms to 512 ms

PROFINET IO Device

Services

— Isochronous mode

— IRT

— PROFIenergy

Yes; per user program

— Prioritized startup

— Shared device

Yes

— Number of IO Controllers with shared device, max.

— activation/deactivation of I-devices

Yes; per user program

— Asset management record

Yes; per user program

— PROFINET Security Class

SNMP Configuration and DCP Read Only

3. Interface

Interface types

● RS 485

Yes; X3

● Number of ports

Protocols

● PROFIBUS DP master

Yes

● PROFIBUS DP device

● SIMATIC communication

Yes

PROFIBUS DP master

● Number of connections, max.

48; for the integrated PROFIBUS DP interface

● max. number of DP devices

125; In total, up to 1 000 distributed I/O devices can be connected via AS-i, PROFIBUS or PROFINET

Services

— Equidistance

Yes

— Isochronous mode

Yes

— activation/deactivation of DP devices

Yes

Interface types

RJ 45 (Ethernet)

● 100 Mbps

Yes

● Autonegotiation

Yes

● Autocrossing

Yes

● Industrial Ethernet status LED

Yes

RS 485

● Transmission rate, max.

12 Mbit/s

Protocols

PROFIsafe

Yes; V2.4 / V2.6

Number of connections

● Number of connections, max.

256; via integrated interfaces of the CPU and connected CPs / CMs

● Number of connections reserved for ES/HMI/web

● Number of connections via integrated interfaces

128

● Number of S7 routing paths

Redundancy mode

● H-Sync forwarding

Yes

Media redundancy

— Media redundancy

only via 1st interface (X1)

— MRP

Yes; MRP Automanager according to IEC 62439-2 Edition 2.0, MRP Manager; MRP Client

— MRP interconnection, supported

Yes; as MRP ring node according to IEC 62439-2 Edition 3.0

— MRPD

Yes; Requirement: IRT

— Switchover time on line break, typ.

200 ms; For MRP, bumpless for MRPD

— Number of stations in the ring, max.

SIMATIC communication

● PG/OP communication

Yes; encryption with TLS V1.3 pre-selected

● S7 routing

Yes

● Data record routing

Yes

● S7 communication, as server

Yes

● S7 communication, as client

Yes

● User data per job, max.

See online help (S7 communication, user data size)

Open IE communication

● TCP/IP

Yes

— Data length, max.

64 kbyte

— several passive connections per port, supported

Yes

● ISO-on-TCP (RFC1006)

Yes

— Data length, max.

64 kbyte

● UDP

Yes

— Data length, max.

2 kbyte; 1 472 bytes for UDP broadcast

— UDP multicast

Yes; Max. 5 multicast circuits

● DHCP

Yes

● DNS

Yes

● SNMP

Yes

● DCP

Yes

● LLDP

Yes

● Encryption

Yes; Optional

Web server

● HTTP

Yes; Standard and user pages

● HTTPS

Yes; Standard and user pages

● web API

— Number of sessions, max.

200

— number of simultaneous HTTP calls, max.

— HTTP request body, max.

131 072 byte

OPC UA

● Runtime license required

Yes; “Medium” license required

● OPC UA Client

Yes; Data Access (registered Read/Write), Method Call

— Application authentication

Yes

— Security policies

Available security policies: None, Basic128Rsa15, Basic256Rsa15, Basic256Sha256

— User authentication

“anonymous” or by user name & password

— Number of connections, max.

— Number of nodes of the client interfaces, recommended max.

2 000

— Number of elements for one call of OPC_UA_NodeGetHandleList/OPC_UA_ReadList/OPC_UA_WriteList, max.

300

— Number of elements for one call of OPC_UA_NameSpaceGetIndexList, max.

— Number of elements for one call of OPC_UA_MethodGetHandleList, max.

100

— Number of simultaneous calls of the client instructions for session management, per connection, max.

— Number of simultaneous calls of the client instructions for data access, per connection, max.

— Number of registerable nodes, max.

5 000

— Number of registerable method calls of OPC_UA_MethodCall, max.

100

— Number of inputs/outputs when calling OPC_UA_MethodCall, max.

● OPC UA Server

Yes; Data Access (Read, Write, Subscribe), Method Call, Alarms & Condition (A&C), Custom Address Space

— Application authentication

Yes

— Security policies

available security policies: None, Basic128Rsa15, Basic256Rsa15, Basic256Sha256, Aes128Sha256RsaOaep, Aes256Sha256RsaPss

— User authentication

“anonymous” or by user name & password

— GDS support (certificate management)

Yes

— Number of sessions, max.

— Number of accessible variables, max.

100 000

— Number of registerable nodes, max.

20 000

— Number of subscriptions per session, max.

— Sampling interval, min.

100 ms

— Publishing interval, min.

100 ms

— Number of server methods, max.

— Number of inputs/outputs per server method, max.

— Number of monitored items, recommended max.

4 000; for 1 s sampling interval and 1 s send interval

— Number of server interfaces, max.

10 of each “Server interfaces” / “Companion specification” type and 20 of the type “Reference namespace”

— Number of nodes for user-defined server interfaces, max.

30 000

● Alarms and Conditions

Yes

— Number of program alarms

200

— Number of alarms for system diagnostics

100

Further protocols

● MODBUS

Yes; MODBUS TCP

Isochronous mode

Equidistance

Yes

S7 message functions

Number of login stations for message functions, max.

number of subscriptions, max.

500

number of tags/attributes for subscriptions, max.

8 000

Program alarms

Yes

Number of configurable program messages, max.

10 000; Program messages are generated by the “Program_Alarm” block, ProDiag or GRAPH

Number of loadable program messages in RUN, max.

10 000

Number of simultaneously active program alarms

● Number of program alarms

1 000

● Number of alarms for system diagnostics

200

● Number of alarms for motion technology objects

480

Test commissioning functions

Joint commission (Team Engineering)

Yes; Parallel online access possible for up to 8 engineering systems

Status block

Yes; Up to 8 simultaneously (in total across all ES clients)

Single step

Number of breakpoints

Profiling

Status/control

● Status/control variable

Yes; without fail-safe

● Variables

inputs/outputs, bit memories, DBs, peripheral I/Os (without fail-safe), times, counters

● Number of variables, max.

— of which status variables, max.

200; per job

— of which control variables, max.

200; per job

Forcing

● Forcing

Yes; without fail-safe

● Forcing, variables

peripheral inputs/outputs (without fail-safe)

● Number of variables, max.

200

Diagnostic buffer

● present

Yes

● Number of entries, max.

3 200

— of which powerfail-proof

500

Traces

● Number of configurable Traces

● Memory size per trace, max.

512 kbyte

Interrupts/diagnostics/status information

Diagnostics indication LED

● RUN/STOP LED

Yes

● ERROR LED

Yes

● MAINT LED

Yes

● Connection display LINK TX/RX

Yes

Supported technology objects

Motion Control

Yes; Note: The number of technology objects affects the cycle time of the PLC program; selection guide via the TIA Selection Tool

● Number of available Motion Control resources for technology objects

6 400

● Required Motion Control resources

— per speed-controlled axis

— per positioning axis

— per synchronous axis

160

— per external encoder

— per output cam

— per cam track

160

— per probe

● Number of available Extended Motion Control resources for technology objects

192

● Required Extended Motion Control resources

— per cam (1 000 points and 50 segments)

— per cam (10 000 points and 50 segments)

— for each set of kinematics

— per Interpreter

— Per leading axis proxy

● kinematics functions

— kinematics with up to 4 interpolating axes

Yes; max. 3D + orientation

— kinematics with 5 or more interpolating axes

— user-defined kinematics

Yes

— SIMATIC Safe Kinematics

● Positioning axis

— Number of positioning axes at motion control cycle of 4 ms (typical value)

— Number of positioning axes at motion control cycle of 8 ms (typical value)

Controller

● PID_Compact

Yes; Universal PID controller with integrated optimization

● PID_3Step

Yes; PID controller with integrated optimization for valves

● PID-Temp

Yes; PID controller with integrated optimization for temperature

Counting and measuring

● High-speed counter

Yes

Standards, approvals, certificates

Ecological footprint

● environmental product declaration

Yes

Global warming potential

— global warming potential, (total) [CO2 eq]

570 kg

— global warming potential, (during production) [CO2 eq]

96.9 kg

— global warming potential, (during operation) [CO2 eq]

483 kg

— global warming potential, (after end of life cycle) [CO2 eq]

-9.97 kg

Highest safety class achievable in safety mode

● Performance level according to ISO 13849-1

PLe

● SIL acc. to IEC 61508

SIL 3

Probability of failure (for service life of 20 years and repair time of 100 hours)

— Low demand mode: PFDavg in accordance with SIL3

< 2.00E-05

— High demand/continuous mode: PFH in accordance with SIL3

< 1.00E-09

Ambient conditions

Ambient temperature during operation

● horizontal installation, min.

0 °C

● horizontal installation, max.

60 °C; Display: 50 °C, at an operating temperature of typically 50 °C, the display is switched off

● vertical installation, min.

0 °C

● vertical installation, max.

40 °C; Display: 40 °C, at an operating temperature of typically 40 °C, the display is switched off

Ambient temperature during storage/transportation

● min.

-40 °C

● max.

70 °C

Altitude during operation relating to sea level

● Installation altitude above sea level, max.

5 000 m; Restrictions for installation altitudes > 2 000 m, see manual

configuration / header

configuration / programming / header

Programming language

— LAD

Yes; incl. failsafe

— FBD

Yes; incl. failsafe

— STL

Yes

— SCL

Yes

— CFC

Yes; either CFC or failsafe functionality

— GRAPH

Yes

Know-how protection

● User program protection/password protection

Yes

● Copy protection

Yes

● Block protection

Yes

Access protection

● protection of confidential configuration data

Yes

● Password for display

Yes

● Protection level: Write protection

Yes

● Protection level: Read/write protection

Yes

● Protection level: Write protection for Failsafe

Yes

● Protection level: Complete protection

Yes

● User administration

Yes; device-wide

programming / cycle time monitoring / header

● lower limit

adjustable minimum cycle time

● upper limit

adjustable maximum cycle time

Dimensions

Width

175 mm

Height

147 mm

Depth

129 mm

Weights

Weight, approx.

1 929 g

Classifications

	Version	Classification
eClass	14	27-24-22-07
eClass	12	27-24-22-07
eClass	9.1	27-24-22-07
eClass	9	27-24-22-07
eClass	8	27-24-22-07
eClass	7.1	27-24-22-07
eClass	6	27-24-22-07
ETIM	9	EC000236
ETIM	8	EC000236
ETIM	7	EC000236
IDEA	4	3565
UNSPSC	15	32-15-17-05

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