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SIMATIC S7-1500R, CPU 1515R-2 PN central processing unit with work memory 1 MB for program and 4.5 MB for data, 1st interface: PROFINET RT with 2-port switch, 2nd interface: PROFINET, SIMATIC Memory Card required

General information

Product type designation

CPU 1515R-2 PN

HW functional status

FS05

Firmware version

V4.0

● FW update possible

Yes

Product function

● I&M data

Yes; I&M0 to I&M3

● Isochronous mode

● SysLog

Yes

Engineering with

● STEP 7 TIA Portal configurable/integrated from version

V20 (FW V4.0) / V18 (FW V3.0) or higher; configurable with older TIA Portal versions as 6ES7 515-2RM00-0AB0

Redundancy

● stand-alone operation

Yes

Display

Screen diagonal [cm]

6.1 cm

Control elements

Number of keys

Mode buttons

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)

0.65 A

Current consumption, max.

0.88 A

Inrush current, max.

1.15 A

I²t

0.6 A²·s

Power

Infeed power to the backplane bus

12 W

Power consumption from the backplane bus (balanced)

6.2 W

Power loss

Power loss, typ.

3.6 W

Memory

Number of slots for SIMATIC memory card

SIMATIC memory card required

Yes

Work memory

● integrated (for program)

1 Mbyte

● integrated (for data)

4.5 Mbyte

Load memory

● Plug-in (SIMATIC Memory Card), max.

32 Gbyte

Backup

● maintenance-free

Yes

CPU processing times

for bit operations, typ.

20 ns

for word operations, typ.

24 ns

for fixed point arithmetic, typ.

32 ns

for floating point arithmetic, typ.

128 ns

CPU-blocks

Number of elements (total)

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

● Number range

Number range: 1 to 59 999

● Size, max.

4.5 Mbyte; For non-optimized block accesses, the max. size of the DB 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 10 ms

● Number of process alarm OBs

● Number of DPV1 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

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; Available retentive memory for bit memories, timers, counters, DBs, and technology data (axes): 472 KB

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

4.5 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

4 096; 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

Subprocess images

● Number of subprocess images, max.

Hardware configuration

Number of distributed IO systems

16; A distributed I/O system is characterized not only by the integration of distributed I/O via PROFINET, but also by the connection of I/O via IE/PB-Links.

Number of IO Controllers

● integrated

Rack

● Modules per rack, max.

5; CPU + 2 PS + 2 CP

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

● on Ethernet via NTP

Yes

Interfaces

Number of PROFINET 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

● SIMATIC communication

Yes; Only Server

● Open IE communication

Yes; Optionally also encrypted

● Web server

Yes

● Media redundancy

Yes

PROFINET IO Controller

Services

— Isochronous mode

— IRT

— PROFIenergy

Yes; per user program

— Number of connectable IO Devices, 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

2. Interface

Interface types

● RJ 45 (Ethernet)

Yes; X2

● Number of ports

● integrated switch

Protocols

● IP protocol

Yes; IPv4

● PROFINET IO Controller

● PROFINET IO Device

● SIMATIC communication

Yes; Only Server

● Open IE communication

Yes; Optionally also encrypted

● Web server

Yes

● Media redundancy

Interface types

RJ 45 (Ethernet)

● 100 Mbps

Yes

● Autonegotiation

Yes

● Autocrossing

Yes

● Industrial Ethernet status LED

Yes

Protocols

PROFIsafe

Number of connections

● Number of connections, max.

256; via integrated interfaces of the CPU and connected CPs

● Number of connections reserved for ES/HMI/web

● Number of connections via integrated interfaces

128

● Number of S7 routing paths

Redundancy mode

● PROFINET system redundancy (S2)

Yes

● PROFINET system redundancy (R1)

Media redundancy

— Media redundancy

Yes; only via 1st interface (X1)

— MRP

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

— MRP interconnection, supported

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

— MRPD

— Switchover time on line break, typ.

200 ms; PROFINET MRP

— Number of stations in the ring, max.

50; Only 16 are recommended, however

SIMATIC communication

● PG/OP communication

Yes; encryption with TLS V1.3 pre-selected

● S7 routing

Yes

● S7 communication, as server

Yes

● S7 communication, as client

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. 118 multicast circuits

● DHCP

● DNS

Yes

● SNMP

Yes

● DCP

Yes

● LLDP

Yes

● Encryption

Yes; Optional

Web server

● HTTP

● HTTPS

Yes; only via Web API

● web API

Yes

— Number of sessions, max.

100

— number of simultaneous HTTP calls, max.

— HTTP request body, max.

131 072 byte

OPC UA

● Runtime license required

Yes; "Medium" license required per CPU

● OPC UA Client

● OPC UA Server

Yes; data access (read, write, subscribe), method call, custom address space, role-based access control

— 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)

— Number of sessions, max.

— Number of subscriptions per session, max.

— Sampling interval, min.

250 ms

— Publishing interval, min.

250 ms

— Number of server methods, max.

50; max. 20 concurrently running jobs each for asynchronous instructions OPC_UA_ServerMethodPre (V1.1) and OPC_UA_ServerMethodPost (V1.1)

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

— Number of monitored items, recommended max.

2 000; 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

Further protocols

● MODBUS

Yes; MODBUS TCP

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

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

Single step

Number of breakpoints

8; Breakpoints are only supported in RUN-Solo status

Profiling

Yes

Status/control

● Status/control variable

Yes

● Variables

Inputs/outputs, memory bits, DBs, distributed I/Os, timers, counters

● Number of variables, max.

— of which status variables, max.

200; per job

— of which control variables, max.

200; per job

Forcing

● Forcing

Yes

● Forcing, variables

Peripheral inputs/outputs

● 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

● STOP ACTIVE LED

Yes

● Connection display LINK TX/RX

Yes

Supported technology objects

Motion Control

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

Yes

Standards, approvals, certificates

Siemens Eco Profile (SEP)

Siemens EcoTech

Recycler Guide available

Yes

Ecological footprint

● environmental product declaration

Yes

Global warming potential

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

100 kg

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

25.8 kg

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

75.2 kg

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

-0.83 kg

product functions / security / header

PROFINET Security Class

signed firmware update

Yes

Secure Boot

Yes

safely removing data

Yes

Ambient conditions

Ambient temperature during operation

● horizontal installation, min.

-30 °C; No condensation

● horizontal installation, max.

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

● vertical installation, min.

-30 °C; No condensation

● 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

— FBD

Yes

— STL

Yes

— SCL

Yes

— CFC

Yes

— GRAPH

Yes

Know-how protection

● User program protection/password protection

Yes

● Copy protection

● 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

● Protection level: Complete protection

Yes

● User administration

Yes; device-wide and centralized

● Number of users

100

● Number of groups

100

● Number of roles

programming / cycle time monitoring / header

● lower limit

adjustable minimum cycle time

● upper limit

adjustable maximum cycle time

Dimensions

Width

70 mm

Height

147 mm

Depth

129 mm

Weights

Weight, approx.

456 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	10	EC000236
ETIM	9	EC000236
ETIM	8	EC000236
ETIM	7	EC000236
IDEA	4	3565
UNSPSC	15	32-15-17-05