DVP-15MC Series Motion Controller Operation Manual 
A-2 
A.1  Message Format in ASCII Mode  
  Communication data structure 
Field name  Components  Explanation 
Start character 
STX 
Start character “:”, the corresponding ASCII code: 16#3A 
Communication 
address 
ADR 1 
Communication address consists of two ASCII codes. 
ADR 0 
Function code 
CMD 1 
Function code consists of two ASCII codes. 
CMD 0 
Data 
DATA  (0) 
Data content consists of 2n ASCII codes, n≤205. 
DATA  (1) 
………. 
DATA  (n-1) 
LRC Check 
LRC CHK 1 
LRC check consists of two ASCII codes. 
LRC CHK 0 
End character 
END1 
End character consists of two ASCII codes. 
END1 = CR (16#0D), 
END0 = LF (16#0A) 
END0 
The corresponding relation between hexadecimal character and ASCII code: 
“0”  “1”  “2”  “3”  “4”  “5”  “6”  “7” 
ASCII code  16#30  16#31  16#32  16#33  16#34  16#35  16#36  16#37 
“8”  “9”  “A”  “B”  “C”  “D”  “E”  “F” 
ASCII code  16#38  16#39  16#41  16#42  16#43  16#44  16#45  16#46 
  ADR (Communication address) 
The valid range of communication address: 0~254. 
Communication address: 0 means the broadcast message is sent to all slaves and the slaves which 
have received the message will not make any response. If communication address is not 0, slaves 
will respond to master after receiving the message normally. For instance, ASCII codes for the 
communication address of 16 are denoted below. 
Decimal 16 is equal to hexadecimal 10. (ADR 1, ADR 0) =‘10’, ‘1’=31H, ‘0’ = 30H 
  Function code and data 
The data format is determined by function codes. For example, to read the two continuous address 
data with hexadecimal 16#0000 as the start address in DVP-15MC series motion controller. The 
communication address of DVP-15MC series motion controller is 1, 16#0000 is the Modbus address 
of %MW0 in the controller. 
The data explanation is shown as below:         
PC→DVP-15MC series motion controller 
3A 30 31 30 33 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 46 41 0D 0A 
DVP-15MC series motion controller→PC 
3A 30 31 30 33 30 34 30 30 30 31 30 30 30 32 46 35 0D 0A