Texas Instruments 990 User Manual page 202

Appl ications U til i ti es
The following parameters appear in the report:
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SECDNDARY STATICN ID. This is the station ID entered at
the star t of the t es t •
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TEST DURAT ICN. Thi s is the num ber of seconds that
elap;ed from the start to the end of the transmission.
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SEND CDUNT/LENGI'H. This is the count of the number of
mes sages sent and t he I engt h of tros e m es sages. For
correct station operation, these numbers srould be the
same as trose entered in resJ;X)nse to the MESSAGE CDUNT
and MESSAGE LENGI'H prompts when the artifici al data test
was acti vated •
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REPLY CO UNT/LENGI'H. This is the number of replies
received from the secondary station and the length of
trose replies. For correct operation, these should be
as follows:
AE command. The REPLY COUNT /LENGI'H is the same as
the SEND CDUNT/LENGI'H.
AR command. The reply length is one.
count is the same as the send count.
The reply
AD command. Both the reply length and the reply
count are zero.
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MESSAGE OtJrPUI' RATE. This is the average number of
mesages sent each second by the primary station.
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MEAN.
Thi s is the average res J;X)ns e time for all
messages.
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M:>DAL. This is the most frequently occurring res:fX)nse
time during the test. If any single resJ;X)nse exceeds 20
seconds, the test terminates and an error message is
di spl ayed •
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MAXIKJM and MINIMUM. These are the longest and the
shortest res J;X)ns e times ohs er ved dur i ng the test, t aki ng
into account that the system clock has an accuracy of
onl y +1 second.
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LINE SERVICE TIME/MESSAGE. This is the line time
requi red to tr ansm i t a s i ngl e mess age, i ncl udi ng the
over head of 15 byt es •
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LINE
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ICN TIME. Thi sis the tot
a1
anount of time
requi red to transmit the specified number of messages.
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IT TIME /ME SS AGE • Thi sis a
time a message spends in
5-80
meas ure of the average
the system queues awai ti ng
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