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16.12 Supplementation
16.12.1 Glossary
(1) Conversation : An exchange of texts between the analyzer and host
computer.
(2) Cluster : A group of conversations between the analyzer and host
computer.
(3) Text : A message transferred between the analyzer and host
computer.
(4) Framing of text : To provide a start character and end character at the
beginning and end of a text for receiving it without fail and
facilitating its check.
(5) Length of text : The total number of characters constituting a text.
(6) Test selection : Analysis by multi-test analyzer not for all tests but for the
tests selected through external instruction.
(7) Point-to-point system : A system in which two instruments for data sending,
receiving or processing are connected via the
communication line, any other instrument is not connected
between them and there is no instrument for control of data
transmission for the whole system.
(8) Response : Sending to one of the instruments which communicate with
each other whether the other is ready for reception or not
and whether the received data is normal or not, and a
character to be transmitted for that purpose.
(9) Recovery : To escape from a deadlock which is caused by abnormality
in the sender, receiver or line.
(10) Frame character : Identifies the purpose of text and functions like a command
No.
(11) Data link : A general term for the physical transmission path from the
sender to receiver via data transmission line and the
logically set data transfer path.
(12) Data field : An area for the contents of a message excluding the control
code, frame character and end-of-data code in a text.
(13) Specific sample : An optional sample requested to the analyzer from the host.
(14) Specific request text : A text which makes a request to the other side for a text
having a data field. (Example: SPE, FR4, FR2, END, RES)
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