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Appendix D. Endianness
Synonyms:
• "Byte order" and "endianness"
• "Little endian" and "least-significant byte first"
•
"Big endian" and "most-significant byte first"
Endianness lies at the root of an instrument processor. It is determined by the
processor manufacturer. A good discussion of endianness can be found at
Wikipedia.com. Issues surrounding endianness in an instrument such as the CR6
datalogger are usually hidden by the operating system. However, the following
CR6 functions bring endianness to the surface and may require some
programming to accommodate differences:
•
Serial input / output programming ( Serial I/O: Capturing Serial Data
(p.
356)
)
• Modbus programming ( Modbus
(p. 525)
)
• MoveBytes() instruction (see CRBasic Editor Help )
•
SDMGeneric() instruction (see
CRBasic Editor Help
)
•
Some PakBus instructions, like GetDataRecord (see
CRBasic Editor
Help )
For example, when the CR1000 datalogger receives data from a CR9000
datalogger, the byte order of a four byte IEEE4 or integer data value has to be
reversed before the value shows properly in the CR1000.
Endianness in Campbell Scientific Instruments
Little Endian Instruments Big Endian Instruments
CR6 datalogger
CR9000X datalogger
CRVW Series dataloggers
CRS451 recording sensor CR200(X) Series dataloggers
CR800 Series dataloggers
CR1000 datalogger
CR3000 datalogger
CR5000 datalogger
Use of endianness is discussed in the following sections:
•
Section Reading Inverse-Format Modbus Registers
(p. 529)
•
Appendix
FP2 Data Format
(p. 647)