Communications Commands and Responses
Section 5-3
5-5
5-3
Communications Commands and Responses
This section shows the settings using BCC (i.e., pin 8 on DIP switch 3 is ON). BCC is not attached
to either the command or response frames when using BCC is not set.
5-3-1
Single Access Commands and Responses
1)
Read (RD)
Command for the use of reading data of an ID Tag.
Command Frame Structure
STX
Node No. Command
code
“RD”
Communi-
cations
Data
type
Fixed
“0”
First read
page
No. of read
pages
ETX BCC
1
2
2
2
1
1
2
2
1
1
Communications
Specifies a communications method.
ST: Single Trigger
SA: Single Auto
SR: Single Repeat
For details, refer to 5-5 Communications Methods.
Data type
Specifies whether the read data is represented in ASCII or HEX.
A: ASCII code
H: HEX code
For details, refer to 5-6 Data Type.
First read page
Specifies the first page of the Tag containing data to be read in HEX.
Setting range: 00h to 0Ah, FFh
(FFh can be specified only when using Philips’ block 4 as user memory. For de-
tails, refer to 2-5 Tag Memory Map.)
No. of read pages
Specifies the number of pages to which data is written in HEX.
Setting range: 01h to 0Ch
Response Frame Structure
STX
Node No.
Retry
flag
Command
code
“RD”
Response
code
“00”
Read data
ETX BCC
1
2
1
2
2
Specified
number
1
1
Response code
00: Normal completion
For other response codes, refer to 5-10 Response Code List.
Read data
Indicates the data having been read.
The number of characters of the data is as follows:
ASCII code : No. of read pages x 4
HEX code : No. of read pages x 8
