Chapter 8 Dedicated Communication 
 
8-6 
 
3) Variable 
Input the address of memory device to be read actually. It shall be ASCII value within 16 
characters. Others than figure, capital/small letter, ‘%’ and ’.’ are not allowed. 
 
Based on the PLC type, available types of variables are as described below. 
 
XGT memory  %(P,M,L,K,F,T)X  - 
%(P,M,L,K,F,T
-  - 
[Table 8.2.1] Types of Variables 
 
 
(1)  When the frame  is composed  with hexadecimal word data  to be displayed on the frame 
above, ‘h in front of figures shall be taken out with the positions of two bytes exchanged as 
below.       Ex.) h0054 ⇒5400 
 
(3) Response format (For PLC’s ACK Response) 
■ Read Response of Individual variable (PLC MMI) 
 
Normal if it is 0, abnormal if not 0. 
If Error State is abnormal, the lower Byte is the error code. 
If Error State is normal, it means the number of blocks to be read. 
The size of data in byte unit. 
(Repeatedly as many as the number of variables /up to 16) 
The size of data in byte unit. 
 
Format   
name 
Header  Instruction 
Data 
type 
Reserved 
area 
Error 
status 
Number 
of 
Data 
Size 
Data 
...... 
Code 
...  h0055  h0002  h0000  h0000  h0001  h0002  h1234 
 
 1 block (up to 16 blocks)