User Manual
Table Of Contents
- M6e-31.5dBm Hardware Guide
- Contents
- Mercury6e Introduction
- Hardware Overview
- Firmware Overview
- Communication Protocol
- Functionality of the Mercury6e
- Appendix A: Error Messages
- Common Error Messages
- FAULT_MSG_WRONG_NUMBER_OF_DATA – (100h)
- FAULT_INVALID_OPCODE – (101h)
- FAULT_UNIMPLEMENTED_OPCODE – 102h
- FAULT_MSG_POWER_TOO_HIGH – 103h
- FAULT_MSG_INVALID_FREQ_RECEIVED (104h)
- FAULT_MSG_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE - (105h)
- FAULT_MSG_POWER_TOO_LOW - (106h)
- FAULT_UNIMPLEMENTED_FEATURE - (109h)
- FAULT_INVALID_BAUD_RATE - (10Ah)
- Bootloader Faults
- Flash Faults
- Protocol Faults
- FAULT_NO_TAGS_FOUND – (400h)
- FAULT_NO_PROTOCOL_DEFINED – 401h
- FAULT_INVALID_PROTOCOL_SPECIFIED – 402h
- FAULT_WRITE_PASSED_LOCK_FAILED – 403h
- FAULT_PROTOCOL_NO_DATA_READ – 404h
- FAULT_AFE_NOT_ON – 405h
- FAULT_PROTOCOL_WRITE_FAILED – 406h
- FAULT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED_FOR_THIS_PROTOCOL – 407h
- FAULT_PROTOCOL_INVALID_WRITE_DATA – 408h
- FAULT_PROTOCOL_INVALID_ADDRESS – 409h
- FAULT_GENERAL_TAG_ERROR – 40Ah
- FAULT_DATA_TOO_LARGE – 40Bh
- FAULT_PROTOCOL_INVALID_KILL_PASSWORD – 40Ch
- FAULT_PROTOCOL_KILL_FAILED - 40Eh
- FAULT_PROTOCOL_BIT_DECODING_FAILED - 40Fh
- FAULT_PROTOCOL_INVALID_EPC – 410h
- FAULT_PROTOCOL_INVALID_NUM_DATA – 411h
- FAULT_GEN2 PROTOCOL_OTHER_ERROR - 420h
- FAULT_GEN2_PROTOCOL_MEMORY_OVERRUN_BAD_PC - 423h
- FAULT_GEN2 PROTOCOL_MEMORY_LOCKED - 424h
- FAULT_GEN2 PROTOCOL_INSUFFICIENT_POWER - 42Bh
- FAULT_GEN2 PROTOCOL_NON_SPECIFIC_ERROR - 42Fh
- FAULT_GEN2 PROTOCOL_UNKNOWN_ERROR - 430h
- Analog Hardware Abstraction Layer Faults
- Tag ID Buffer Faults
- System Errors
- Common Error Messages
- Appendix B: Getting Started - Devkit
Protocol Support
Functionality of the Mercury6e 41
Protocol Specific Functionality
See the MercuryAPI Programmers Guide and language specific reference guides for
details on supported Gen2 command functionality.
I-PX
Protocol Configuration Options
The M6e supports multiple I-PX profiles including the ability to specify the Return Link
Frequency, encoding and modulation scheme. The two profiles are treated as distinct
protocols, the individual parameters are not configurable as with the other protocols. The
following table shows the supported combinations:
Note
The two link rates are effectively two different protocols and treated as such.
I-PX tags are fixed to one of the two frequencies and cannot communicate
on the other, unlike ISO 18000-6B/C tags which can operate under multiple
profiles.
ISO 18000-6B
Protocol Configuration Options
The M6e supports multiple ISO-18000-6B profiles including the ability to specify the
Return Link Frequency, encoding, Forward Link Rate and modulation scheme. The
protocol options are set in the MercuryAPI Reader Configuration Parameters (/reader/
iso18000-6b/*). The following table shows the supported combinations:
ISO-18000-6B Protocol Options
Return Link
Freq (kHz)
Modulation
Scheme
Notes
64 PWM Protocol ID = TagProtocol.IPX64
256 PWM Protocol ID = TagProtocol.IPX256
ISO-18000-6B Protocol Options
Return Link
Freq (kHz)
Return
Encoding
Forward Link
Freq (kHz)
Forward
Encoding
Notes
40 FM0 10 Manchester 1
160 FM0 40 Manchester 2