Using the non-intelligent terminal protocol – Siemens SIMATIC TIWAY 1 User Manual
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USING THE NON-INTELLIGENT TERMINAL PROTOCOL
UNILINK HOST ADAPTER
A–5
USER MANUAL
Then insert the character count at the beginning of the message body as
“00182001000202000E”. The ECC is given by:
Two’s complement
of (0018 + 2001 + 0002 + 0200 + 0E00) = CFE5 (ECC)
Fill Characters
so that the complete message is the character string:
:00182001000202000ECFE5;
or:
3A 30 30 31 38 32 30 30 31 30 30 30 32 30 32 30 30 30 45 43 46 45 35 3B
: 0 0 1 8 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 E C F E 5 ;
ASCII
CODES
CHARACTERS
The following table summarizes the NITP message structure:
Table A–2
NITP Message Structure
Field
Contents
No. of Characters
Beginning Delimiter
Colon (:)
1
Character Count
Hexadecimal
4
Body of Message
Hexadecimal
580 (max.)
Error Checking Code
Hexadecimal
4
Terminator
Semicolon (;)
1
________
Total
590