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R (BREAK)
R (UNDEFINED)
The communications protocol is described in Figure 4-1. The Evertz unit (Device) immediately enters
the select state upon power-up and remains there unless directed by an Enter Broadcast Cmd (02 hex)
to the broadcast communications state. The diagram shows the various states of the device. The
designation R( ) indicates the data received from the controller, while the designation T( ) indicates the
data transmitted by the Device.
4.3.
MESSAGE BLOCK FORMAT
Once communications have been established, command messages may be sent to the Device.
Each control message starts with the STX character and ends with a checksum. The message blocks
are structured as follows:
STX
SERIAL PROTOCOL
R(Enter Broadcast)
T(ACK)
SELECT
R(STX)
TIMEOUT
(10 msec)
T(NAK)
Figure 4-1: Communications Protocol State Diagram
BYTE COUNT
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T(ACK)
R(Enter Select)
no response required
T(ACK)
T (MESSAGE)
R (MESSAGE)
MESSAGE
Broadcast
T(STX)
ERROR (Parity,checksum
undefined command, etc)
CHECKSUM
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