Installation and Operation Manual
X-DPT-DeviceNet-SLA5800-SLAMf-Series-RevB-PC-eng
Part Number: 541B200AAG
March, 2015
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Section 2 - Before Starting
Brooks DeviceNet PCs
2.3. Notations
This section details notations and conventions used throughout the manual.
It is recommended that the reader become very familiar with these
conventions. Hypertext links are used in the manual to assist in navigating.
This manual is best viewed in its electronic form and can be obtained from
the Brooks website
www.BrooksInstrument.com
in Adobe
®
Acrobat
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format. A glossary is provided for reference in Section: 8 Glossary to aid in
reviewing and/or to define any unfamiliar terms.
2.3.1. Numbers
Numeric values used throughout this manual will be clearly denoted as to the
base numeric system it represents. All hexadecimal number (base 16) will be
prefixed with a 0x, like 0xA4. All binary numbers (base 2) will be suffixed with
a b, like 1001b. All other numbers not annotated this way will be assumed
decimal (base 10).
2.3.2. EPATH
EPATH’s will be denoted within brackets [ ] like [0x31, 1, 3], which
represents, left to right, the Class ID (hexadecimal), Instance ID (decimal),
and Attribute ID (decimal).
