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N-L20 Auto-ID Technical Guide

SIEMENS S7-1500 SERIES

Connection Guide: PROFINET Communication

This manual explains how to use PROFINET communication to connect
to the N-L20 and the Siemens S7-1500 Series.
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Chapter
CONFIGURING KEYENCE
Table of Contents 3 COMMUNICATION UNIT N-L20 SETTINGS
Use the Auto ID Network Navigator to configure the communication
Chapter 1 EQUIPMENT USED
settings for the N-L20.
Chapter 2 CONNECTION METHODS
Chapter 3 CONFIGURING KEYENCE COMMUNICATION UNIT
N-L20 SETTINGS 1 Use an USB cable to connect the PC and the N-L20.
Chapter 4 CONNECTING AND SETTING UP THE CODE READER
Chapter 5 CONFIGURING SIEMENS S7-1500 SERIES SETTINGS
PC
N-L20 (AutoID Network Navigator)
Chapter 6 EXECUTING READ REQUEST AND MONITORING
READING DATA

Chapter

1 EQUIPMENT USED USB cable

Prepare the following equipment.

CPU module S7-1500 Series PLC Communication Unit

N-L20 2 Start AutoID Network Navigator.

Double click the AutoID Network Navigator icon on your desktop.

When you start AutoID Network Navigator, it will automatically search
for the N-L20 on the network.

USB cable
OP-51580 (2 m)

When the connection completes successfully, the below image is

displayed .

Chapter

2 CONNECTION METHODS
3 Change the settings to those of the desired fixed IP
address.
Overall connection diagram Change the Ethernet settings on the "Ethernet" tab.
Connect the S7-1500 and the N-L20 as shown below.

N-L20 Ethernet hub S7-1500 Series

Ethernet cable

24 VDC
power supply

4 Click the “Start the setup wizard”, and set as shown

below.

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Chapter
CONNECTING AND SETTING UP
4 THE CODE READER
■ For the SR-700 Series

1 Connect N-L20 and the SR-700 Series. Press the

head connection button and select SR-700.

Setting Item Setting Value

Data handshake Disabled
Device name n-l20
* The PROFINET device name is a setting required to perform communication with
the PLC. Make sure that this matches the name that you will set on the PLC side.
Also, do not use a name that already exists on the same network.

* The handshake function has the N-L20 output data synchronised with the data
output instructions of the PLC.
Enabled: The N-L20 does not send new data to the PLC until there is an instruction
from the PLC.
Disabled: The N-L20 sends new data to the PLC regardless of instructions from the
PLC. Here, disable this function.

2 When the message below is shown the connection

was successful. Configure the SR-700 settings.

5 Click the send settings button in the upper right

of AutoID Network Navigator to send the settings to
* The read screen cannot be displayed when settings are
configured via N-L20.
the N-L20.

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■ For the BL-1300 Series Chapter

CONFIGURING SIEMENS S7-1500
Align the N-L20 communication settings with the BL-1300. 5 SERIES SETTINGS
* TIA Portal V.13 or later is required to configure PROFINET settings.

1 Align the N-L20 head RS-232C settings (settings

list) with the BL-1300 initial communication
settings, and send the settings. 1 Use TIA Portal to create a new project.

Start TIA Portal, and then click “Project view” in the lower left of the
screen.

Click the “new project” button to display the “Create a new project”
screen. Enter a project name, and then click “Create.”
Double-click “Add new device” under the new project that has been
added to the “Project tree.”

Double-click “Add new device” under the new project that has been
added to the “Project tree.”

2 Connect N-L20 and the BL-1300 Series. Press the On the “Add new device” screen, click the S7-1500 Series that you will
head connection button and select BL-1300. use, and then click “OK.” (You can specify an arbitrary value for
“Device name.” Here, we have used “PLC_1.”)

3 When the message below is shown the connection

was successful. Configure the BL-1300 settings.
* AGC cannot be lifted and tuning cannot be performed using
AutoID Network Navigator. To perform tuning, use N-UB or
N-R2 and AutoID Navigator.

2 Set an IP address on the PLC.

Open the “Online access” branch in the “Project tree,” and then click
the network card of the PC that the S7-1500 Series is connected to.

Double-click “Update accessible devices” to automatically scan for

and display the devices that can be accessed from the selected
network card.
* If a firewall is enabled, the scan may not be performed correctly. In this situation,
temporarily disable the firewall.

When the scan completes

successfully, the devices on
the network are displayed.

Open the detected PLC, and then double-click “Online & diagnostics.”

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Click “Assign IP address” under “Functions,” set the IP address and Double-click a PLC device from within the list of PLC devices.
subnet mask, and then click “Assign IP address.” Double-click “Devices & networks.”

* If the PLC has already been set, you may not be able to assign the IP address. In
this situation, click “Reset to factory settings” to return the PLC to its factory default
status, and then return to step 2 of this procedure.

3 Register the GSDML file (definitions file for N-L20

PROFINET) for the N-L20 to TIA Portal. In the “Hardware catalog” field, click “Other field devices,” “PROFINET IO,”
* The GSDML file is in the AutoID Network Navigator installation folder. “Sensors,” “KEYENCE CORPORATION,” “Keyence Code Readers,” and
then check that N-L20 is selectable.
• 64-bit version:
C:\Program Files (x86)\KEYENCE Applications\AutoID\GSDML
\N-L20
• 32-bit version:
C:\Program Files\KEYENCE Applications\AutoID\GSDML
\N-L20

On the “Options” menu, click “Install general station description file

(GSD).”

Specify the folder that contains the GSDML file for the “Source path.”
Select the check box of the corresponding GSDML file, and then click
“Install.”

4 Add N-L20 to the Network view.

In the “Devices & networks” field, click the “Network view” tab, and
then drag “N-L20” from the catalogue to this tab.

Click “Project view” in the lower left of the screen, and then click
“Open” on the “Project” menu.
Click on a project, and then click “Open.”
After the “Open existing project” screen is displayed, click a project,
and then click “Open.”

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Click the green box in the upper left of the N-L20 to create a line, and Under “Advanced options,” click “IO cycle,” and then set “Update time”
then extend this line to the green box in the lower left of the PLC. to 64.000 ms and “Accepted update cycles without IO data” to 16.
* Adjust these parameters to match your operation environment.

This connects the N-L20 and the PLC.

6 Set the PLC IP address.

5 Configure the N-L20 settings. Click the “Network view” tab, and then double-click the PLC image.
On the “General” tab, click “Profinet interface,” click “Ethernet addresses,”
On the “Network view” tab, click the N-L20 image. and then set the IP address of the PLC.
In the “Device overview” window of the “Device view” tab, enter into
the top of the table the Profinet device name that you set with AutoID
Network Navigator.

7 Transmit the setting information to the PLC.

Click the “Network view” tab, right-click the PLC, point to “Compile,”
Double-click the N-L20 image, click the “General” tab, click and then click “Hardware and software (only changes)” to execute the
“PROFINET interface,” click “Ethernet addresses,” and then set the IP compilation.
address of the N-L20.
Right-click
* If you attempt to specify the IP address that belongs to the PLC that you will set here.
later, the warning “The IP address is not unique within the subnet.” will be displayed.
Change the address of the PLC or N-L20.
* f the IP address that you set for the N-L20 on this screen is different from the IP
address that you set with AutoID Network Navigator, the IP address will be forcibly
changed to the one that you set here.

After the compilation is finished, right-click the PLC, point to

“Download to device,” and then click “Hardware and software (only
changes)” to transmit the compiled programme to the PLC.

Right-click
here.

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On the “Extended download to device” screen, select the interface Chapter

EXECUTING READ REQUEST AND
that is connected to the PLC. Click the target PLC, and then click 6 MONITORING READING DATA
“Load.”
This chapter explains how to start HEAD reading through PROFINET
and how to check that the reading results are written to the data map.
(An example without handshaking is explained.)
* In order to read a code, please connect HEAD to N-L20 and make sure that the
RS-232C settings are compatible. For details, see the N-L20 User's Manual.

1 Set the PLC tags.

To check the address of the PLC device assigned to the N-L20, on

the “Network view” tab, click the N-L20, and then click the “Device
view” tab.
* For details on assigning functions to each module, see the N-L20 User's Manual.
* The addresses are assigned to each module automatically (you can assign these
addresses manually). The assignments shown in the image below are used in the
explanation that follows.

If “Different modules” is displayed on the “Load preview” screen,

select “Accept all,” and then click “Load.”

Module names Process memory assignments

Operation instruction Control Bits_1 is assigned to Q address 1. Set

bit 0 of Operation instruction Control Bits_1 to “TRUE” to start N-L20
reading.

Read Complete is assigned to bit 0 of I address 2.

The data of the code read by the N-L20 is written starting from I
address byte 284.
Q address: output address (PLC ➝ N-L20)
I address: input address (PLC N-L20)

After the “Load results” screen is displayed, click “Finish.” Q address 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

When PROFINET communication is established between the N-L20 1 Operation instruction Control Bits

and the PLC, the S7-1500 ERROR LED turns off.

Read Request (starts reading)

I address 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

2 Completion Status Bits

Read Complete (reading complete)

B284
B285 Result Data
B286

Read Data (reading result data)

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Register this address information to PLC tags.
Under “PLC tags,” double-click “Add new tag table.” Switch to online mode and start monitoring.
* You cannot open new tag table in Online mode. Click to switch to
Click to switch to online mode.
Offline mode.
On the “Online” menu, click “Monitor all.”

Tag table_1 is added. Enter the arbitrary names of the data in the
“Name” column, the data types in the “Data type” column, and the
device addresses in the “Address” column. Set the mode selector switch to “RUN” on S7-1500.
As shown below, you can easily set the number of Result Data bytes
by using the mouse to drag the lower-right corner of the Result Data
cell.

In the Watch table, right-click the value in the “Monitor value” column
Use the mouse to for “Read Request”, point to “Modify,” and then click “Modify to 1” to
drag this corner start reading.
down.
Right-click

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here.
Register devices to the Watch table.

Click “Watch and force tables,” and then double-click “Add new watch
table.”

When the sample code is read, the data read is stored in the “Result
Data” area as shown below. Also, you can check whether reading is
complete by checking whether “Read Complete” has changed to
“TRUE.”
In Watch table_1, enter the tag names registered to PLC tags in the
“Name” column. For each reading result (Result Data) entry, change
the value in the “Display format” column to “Character.” (When you
write a name registered to PLC tags in the “Name” column, the data
is written to the other columns automatically. You can also copy data
from the Tag Table.)

To complete reading without reading the code, use “Modify to 0” to

set “Read Request” to “FALSE.”

Sample code

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