Chapter 8  Communications  ASDA-B2 
8-6     Revision May, 2018 
8.3  MODBUS Communication Protocol 
There are two modes of MODBUS networks communication, ASCII (American Standard 
Code for information interchange) mode and RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) mode. Users 
could set the needed communication protocol via parameter P3-02. Apart from these two 
communication modes, this servo drive also supports function of 03H to access more than 
one data, 06H to write one character and 10H to write multiple characters. Please refer to 
the following descriptions. 
  Code Description:  
ASCII Mode:  
The so-called ASCII mode is using American Standard Code for Information Interchange 
(ASCII) to transmit the data. Between two stations (Master and Slave) to transmit data 64H, 
the master will send ‘6’ which represented by 36H of ASCII code and ‘4’ represented by 
34H of ASCII code. 
The following table shows the available hexadecimal characters and their corresponding 
ASCII code of digit 0 to 9 and characters A to F is as follows: 
Character  ‘0’  ‘1’  ‘2’  ‘3’  ‘4’  ‘5’  ‘6’  ‘7’ 
ASCII code  30H 31H 32H 33H 34H 35H 36H 37H 
Character  ‘8’  ‘9’  ‘A’  ‘B’  ‘C’  ‘D’  ‘E’  ‘F’ 
ASCII code  38H 39H 41H 42H 43H 44H 45H 46H 
RTU Mode:  
Every 8-bit of data is constituted by two 4-bits hexadecimal characters. If data 64H is 
transmitted between two stations, it will be transmitted directly, which is more efficient than 
ASCII mode.
 
  Character Structure 
Characters will be encoded into the following framing and transmitted in serial.  
The checking method of different bit is as the following.  
10-bit character frame (For 7-bits character) 
7N2 
Start
 bit
01
2
3456
Stop
bit
7-data bits
10-bits character frame
Stop
bit