Serial No. & Model Name Read, Serial No. Read

12. Serial No. & Model Name Read

12.1 Serial No. Read

This command is used in order to read a serial number.

1) The controller requests the monitor to read a serial number.

	Header	Message	Check code	Delimiter
SOH-'0'-Monitor ID-'0'-'A'-'0'-'6'		STX-'C'-'2'-'1'-'6'-ETX	BCC	CR
Header
SOH	(01h): Start Of Header
'0'	(30h): Reserved

Monitor ID: Specify the Monitor ID which you want to get serial number. Ex.) If Monitor ID is '1', specify 'A'.

'0' (30h): Message sender is the controller.

'A' (41h): Message type is "Command".

'0'-'6'(30h, 36h): Message length

Message

STX (02h): Start of Message

'C'-'2'-'1'-'6' (43h, 32h, 31h, 36h): Serial No. command

ETX (03h): End of Message

Check code

BCC: Block Check Code

Refer to the section 4.5 “Check code” for a BCC calculation.

Delimiter

CR (0Dh): End of packet

2) The monitor replies the serial No. data to the controller.

Header	Message	Check code	Delimiter
SOH-'0'-'0'-Monitor ID-'B'-N-N	STX-'C'-'3'-'1'-'6'-	BCC	CR
	Data(0)-Data(1)---Data(n)-ETX

Header

SOH (01h): Start Of Header

'0' (30h): Reserved

'0' (30h): Message receiver is the controller.

Monitor ID: Indicate a replying Monitor ID.

Ex.) When this byte is set to 'A', the replying Monitor ID is '1'.

'B' (42h): Message type is "Command reply".

N-N: Message length

Note.) The maximum data length that can be returned from the monitor at a time is 32bytes.

Ex.) The byte data 20h is encoded as ASCII characters '2' and '0' (32h and 30h).

Message

STX (02h): Start of Message

'C'-'3'-'1'-'6' (41h, 33h, 31h, 36h): Serial No. reply command

Data(0)-Data(1)----Data(n):Serial Number

These data are encoded to ASCII characters strings. ETX (03h): End of Message