STP-iS1607 Series Turbomolecular Pump
SERIAL COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL
Table 20 shows ASCII characters being used in the transmission control, error control and
handshake in the application layer.
Transmission block start character
Transmission frame end character
Transmission block end character
Non-acknowledgment response
Network frame ID character
Non-acknowledgment response
Table 20 - Transmission control characters
5.3.2 Standard transmission frame (in the RS232/RS485 single point connection)
The transmission frame has a single block or multiple transmission blocks. The transmission block
consists of a start control character, data block No. (3 digits), a message (up to 255 characters), an
end control character, and a checksum (LRC). The following table shows the transmission frame
where the message transmission character string is C
n
.
Transmission frame when a message is below 255 characters (n<=255):
"Stx" and "Etx" are used as a start and an end character of the transmission frame, respectively.