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SIX Driver Revision History

Versions described:

The middle number "9" or "10" is the version of the proscada libraries used

The Third number is the version number relating to changes to Siemens functionality.

Last number is Minor changes including things like help file updates, installers etc

Version 7.10.56 (Latest release 2016)

• New ISO transport layer to support old S5 PLC's on 64 bit

Version 7.10.55 (Latest release 2012)

• Roundup of small changes
• Support for stricter security in Win 2012 Server

Version 7.10.54 (Latest release October 2009)

• Added suppport for S7-1200

Version 7.10.53.1 (Latest release November 2008)

• Improved performance with small Siemens DB's (more small DB's per message)
• Improved driver poll rate (more messages per second) this is only seen on the latest S7-400's
• Improved support for iFix 4.5 & 5.0 Strings, Double precision values
• Ability to control connection to backup address - Manual force to backup & back to primary
• Improved HTML help system

Version 7.9.52.12 (release Jan 2008)

• Bug Fix related to iFix 4.5 only, fixed problem with timestamps

• New feature Fix 4.5 now has a feature allowing analog values with a higher resolution more than 7 decimal places. **Note OPC never had this issue, just use DWRD signal conditioning

  32 bit LONG Integers used to loose resolution with values > 8.3 million with all previous versions of fix

  To see the correct value with iFix 4.5 & SIX V 7.9.52.12

  1. Enter a 32 bit IO address eg. "DB15,D40" {the D specifies 32 bit}
  2. Set the Signal conditioning to "DWRD"
  3. In iFix data base you can now set VERY high HI_EGU values like 20 000 000
  4. In iFix workspace use fix.<tagname>.E_CV {.F_CV will still show the low resolution value}

Version 7.9.52.11 (release August 2007)

• Improved polling of multiple Datablocks

Version 7.9.52.8 (release May 2007)

• Bug Fix related to writing last address in an S5 PLC datablock

• Improved setting data bad after loss of comms

Version 7.9.52.6 

• support for arrays spanning multiple poll blocks

Version 7.9.52.6 

• Improvement, Better performance with S7 PLC's.  In particular configurations with lots of small blocks will see upto 2x performance improvements.

• Larger block sizes, upto 440 bytes on S7-400 PLC's

• Support for Arrays (AR offsets) into contiguous poll blocks

• Faster Writing of data down to S7 PLC's

• Support for Siemens WinAC RTX

• OPC V3 support

• Bug Fixes (these generally only affected one or two installations)

  • Fixed some issues with Simatic TI

  • Improved Automatic poll block creation with "Learn address" feature

   

Version 7.9.51

• Improvement, Better TCP/IP performance

• Support for S7-200 via CP243

• Support for full resolution 32 bit Integers with DWRD SC (Only via OPC)

• DWRD support for S5 longs (OPC only)

• Redundancy support with TCP/IP (redundancy using backup IP address)

• Ported to MS VC 8 (compiler) using some extra error handling features

• Bug Fixes (these generally only affected one or two installations)

  • Minor Floating point accuracy displays 1.0 not 0.99999 for S5 PLC

  • Fixed Minor False Data ok with small poll blocks

  • Improved Automatic poll block creation with "Learn address" feature

  • Fixed issue with incorrect display of IO addresses in mixed S5/S7 databases

  • Better handling of polling program startup & shut down

Version 6.9.46 

• Improvement new feature, a semi automatic method of generating pollblocks from the addresses used.  This is called "Learn Addresses" on the options menu

• Bugfixes

  • Small improvement to TCP/IP

Version 6.9.45 

• Improvement support for TCP/IP

Version 6.9.44

• Improvement The Device name is now 11 characters up from 5, the driver will upgrade the file to this format when an old file is opened and it will prompt you to save.  if you take this configuration file and use it with an older driver it will probably fail - use .CSV export/import in this case.
• Improvement - Max write message length has been increased to to 220 bytes up from 128
• Minor issue with floating point rounding on some signal conditionings has been resolved
• Several small improvements to the debug messages appearing in the bottom window. This data can now also be save to a log file - to do this select Options|Save log file.
• A new feature called Learn Addresses has been added, this was added mainly for OPC clients, It allows semi-automatic configuration of poll blocks from the tag addresses used.
• A new feature Disable Comms alarms has been added, this is the same as the V7 driver "Latch" setting meaning if comms is lost the last known data is displayed.  If you need to alarm Comms failure, setup the debug pollrecord ST0-200 & add an AI tag <device>:SW2 & alarm < 2.0  

Version 6.8.43

• Improvements to the OPC server, no changes for FIX clients.

Version 6.7.43

• improved debug info

• Modified reload so PMON works

• Now runs correctly when run as a service either by iFix or ihOPCCollector.EXE

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