Toshiba TSL3000 - Turning ON the Main Power (TS3000)

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COMMUNICATION MANUAL
series Robot Controller
5.2 Transmission Format
Transmissions are made with the text unit shown below. A maximum of 253 bytes of
actual data can be transmitted as a single text. Actual data in amounts over 253 bytes
will be transmitted in one of the following two ways.
(1) Files (robot programs, positional data, parameters) will be broken down into
multiple texts and transmitted as described in Para. 5.3.3. The receiving station
will send an answer signal back for each block of text transmitted. File upload
(or download) commands are not necessary to transmit the second and
following blocks of text.
(2) Messages to be transmitted
Messages will be sent with multiple transmissions. In other words, the data will
be broken down into multiple texts and each text will be transmitted
independently. The station that received the data will reconstruct the multiple
texts back into a single message.
5.2.1 Text
1 byte 1 byte
STX(0x02)
DATA
ETX(0x03)
Text length: Max. 255 byte (from STX through ETX)
Text content:

STX Start of text code (0x02) – 1 byte

DATA Data section (Max. 253 bytes)

ETX End of text code (0x03) – 1 byte
Max. 255 bytes
Max. 253 bytes