Owner's manual

1.0 INTRODUCTION
The MICRO-DCI family of microprocessor-based control instruments supports the Datalink
and MicroLink communications architectures. Datalink is an interrogator/responder serial interface
and MicroLink is a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) network permitting direct communication
between any two nodes (peer-to-peer). Both networks use an RS485 physical interface. This man-
ual contains the specifications and implementation instructions for the MicroLink option, as well as
information to interconnect MicroLink and Datalink networks via a 53MC5000 PCS configured as a
gateway.
Section 1. Introduction
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