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On receiving the message, the Host computer may send an ACK reply to
acknowledge correct receipt and interpretation of the message, meaning that all
the fields have the correct values and the checksum is correct; or a NACK reply to
indicate that the message contains one of more errors: inexact checksum,
incorrect length of the data field, etc…
ACK Message
ACK
(0x06)
H-ADD
(0x30)
L-ADD
(0x31)
ETX
(0x0D)
Timeout on ACK Message: 1 Sec.
NACK Message
NACK
(0x15)
H-ADD
(0x30)
L-ADD
(0x31)
H-ERR
L-ERR
ETX
(0x0D)
where: H-ERR / L-ERR are the HEX-ASCII representation of the error code
defined according to the following table:
Error code
H-ERR
Value
L-ERR
Value
Meaning
0x00
0x30
0x30
General Error
0x04
0x30
0x34
Checksum Error
0x05
0x30
0x35
Error field value
H-LEN / L-LEN
0x06
0x30
0x36
Data field Length Error
Timeout on NACK Message: 1 Sec.
Message for sending QC (Quality Control) sample data:
Command 0x52
This message is sent by the Mini Cube towards the host computer. The message
contains the results of the analyses performed on one or more samples. The host
computer must only reply to this message with an ACK or NACK type message to
notify the successful receipt of the results or the presence of errors in the
message.