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ACK/NAK Enabled and Packeted Data ........................................................................ 8-4
ACK/NAK Enabled and Unpacketed ASCII Data ......................................................... 8-4
ACK/NAK Disabled and Packeted DECODE_DATA ................................................... 8-4
ACK/NAK Disabled and Unpacketed ASCII Data ........................................................ 8-5
Communication Summary ........................................................................................................ 8-5
RTS/CTS Lines .................................................................................................................. 8-5
ACK/NAK Option ................................................................................................................ 8-5
Number of Data Bits ........................................................................................................... 8-5
Serial Response Time-out ................................................................................................. 8-5
Retries ................................................................................................................................ 8-5
Baud Rate, Stop Bits, Parity, Response Time-out, ACK/NAK Handshake ........................ 8-6
Errors ................................................................................................................................. 8-6
Things to Remember When Using SSI Communication .......................................................... 8-6
Using Time Delay to Low Power Mode with SSI ...................................................................... 8-7
Simple Serial Interface Default Parameters ............................................................................. 8-8
SSI Host Parameters ............................................................................................................... 8-9
Select SSI Host .................................................................................................................. 8-9
Baud Rate .......................................................................................................................... 8-10
Parity .................................................................................................................................. 8-11
Check Parity ....................................................................................................................... 8-12
Software Handshaking ....................................................................................................... 8-12
Host RTS Line State .......................................................................................................... 8-13
Decode Data Packet Format .............................................................................................. 8-13
Host Serial Response Time-out ......................................................................................... 8-14
Host Character Time-out .................................................................................................... 8-15
Multipacket Option ............................................................................................................. 8-16
Interpacket Delay ............................................................................................................... 8-17
Event Reporting ....................................................................................................................... 8-18
Decode Event .................................................................................................................... 8-18
Boot Up Event .................................................................................................................... 8-19
Parameter Event ................................................................................................................ 8-19
Chapter 9: Serial Interface
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 9-1
Serial Parameter Defaults ........................................................................................................ 9-2
Serial Host Parameters ............................................................................................................ 9-3
Serial Host Types ............................................................................................................... 9-5
Baud Rate .......................................................................................................................... 9-7
Parity ........................................................
.......................................................................... 9-8
Data Bits ............................................................................................................................ 9-8
Check Receive Errors ........................................................................................................ 9-9
Hardware Handshaking ..................................................................................................... 9-10
Software Handshaking ....................................................................................................... 9-12
Host Serial Response Time-out ......................................................................................... 9-14
RTS Line State ................................................................................................................... 9-15
Beep on <BEL> .................................................................................................................. 9-15
Intercharacter Delay ........................................................................................................... 9-16
Nixdorf Beep/LED Options ................................................................................................. 9-17
Ignore Unknown Characters .............................................................................................. 9-17
ASCII Character Set for Serial Hosts ....................................................................................... 9-18