Agilent Technologies TwisTorr Medium-TMP Mode D'emploi page 160

17 Technical Information
Procedure to Connect the Serial and I/O Ports to an External
Cable
When a data is indicated between two quotes ('...') it means that the indicated
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data is the corresponding ASCII character.
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Data type
Logic (L)
Numeric (N)
Alphanumeric (A)
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The addressed SLAVE will respond with an ANSWER whose structure
depends from the MESSAGE type.
When the MESSAGE is a reading command, the SLAVE will respond
transmitting a string with the same structure of the MESSAGE.
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<STX> (Start of transmission) = 0x02
<ADDR> (Unit address) = 0x80 (for RS 232)
<ADDR> (Unit address) = 0x80 + device number (0 to 31) (for RS
485)
<WIN> (Window) = a string of 3 numeric character indicating the
window number (from '000' to '999'); for the meaning of each
window see the relevant paragraph.
<COM> (Command) = 0x30 to read the window, 0x31 to write into
the window
<DATA> = an alphanumeric ASCII string with the data to be
written into the window. In case of a reading command this field
is not present. The field length is variable according to the data
type as per the following table:
Field length
1
6
Up to 14
<ETX> (End of transmission) = 0x03
<CRC> = XOR of all characters subsequent to <STX> and
including the <ETX> terminator. The value is hexadecimal coded
and indicated by two ASCII character.
Valid characters
'0' = off
'1' = on
'-', '.', '0' . . . '9' right
justified with '0'
from blank to '_' (ASCII)