System information

Glossary
ASCII: Acronym for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange
that represents the English characters as numbers, with each character assigned
a number from 0 to 127.
ASCIIZ: An ASCII string that is terminated with a NULL character sequence
Binary: The numbering system computers are based on using just two unique
numbers: one and zero.
BMP5 Protocol: Block Mode Protocol, Version 5. A high-level or application
layer protocol used to send messages between nodes over a PakBus network.
DevConfig Protocol: A protocol used to get settings from and set settings on a
CR1000 datalogger.
Hexadecimal: Refers to the base-16 number system, which consists of 16
unique symbols: the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A to F.
LSB: Least Significant Byte. The last or rightmost byte when a binary number
is written in the usual way.
Link-State Sub-protocol: A SerPkt sub-protocol used over a PakBus network
to describe the communication link state of a node.
MSB: Most Significant Byte. The first or leftmost byte when a binary number
is written in the usual way.
Network: A group of two or more devices linked together.
Node: A unique device on a network.
Packet: The encapsulated information allowing communication among devices
on a network.
PakCtrl Protocol: A high-level protocol used to facilitate network services
over a PakBus network.
PakBus: A family of protocols used to accomplish packet switched networking
over a wide area using heterogeneous physical sub-nets.
Protocol: A standard or specification used to transmit data between two
devices.
QuoteByte: A reserved byte, 0xbc, in the BMP5 protocol used to keep BMP5
reserved bytes from appearing within the data packet unintentionally.
SerSyncByte: A reserved byte, 0xbd, in the BMP5 protocol used to frame a
data packet.
SerPkt Protocol: A common link layer protocol used over a PakBus network.
Signature Nullifier: A two-byte code that when calculated with the rest of the
frame, results in a signature value of zero ensuring that the original bytes sent
in the packet are the bytes received in the packet.