User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Contents
- Introduction to the Mercury6e- Transcore Module
- Functionality of the Embedded Modules
- Overview of the Communication Protocol
- Command Set
- Boot Loader Commands
- Multi-Protocol Tag Commands
- Allegro/Title-21 Tag Commands
- eGo/SeGo Tag Command Set
- ATA Tag Command Set
- Gen2 Tag Commands
- Get Configuration Commands
- Get Hardware Version (10h)
- Get Antenna Configuration (61h)
- Get Read TX Power (62h)
- Get Current Tag Protocol (63h)
- Get Write TX Power (64h)
- Get Frequency Hop Table (65h)
- Get User GPIO Inputs (66h)
- Get Current Region (67h)
- Get Power Mode (68h)
- Get User Mode (69h)
- Get Reader Configuration(6Ah)
- Get Protocol Configuration (6Bh)
- Get Reader Statistics (6Ch)
- Get Available Protocols (70h)
- Get Available Regions (71h)
- Get Current Temperature (72h)
- Set Configuration Commands
- Regulatory Test Commands
- Appendix A: Hardware Details
- Appendix B: Using the ArbSer Application
- Appendix C: 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
- FPGA 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 D: FPGA Support
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Get Tag EPCs 52
Get Tag EPCs and Metadata 54
Clear Tag Buffer (2Ah) .................................................................58
Multi-Protocol Tag Read (2Fh)...........................................................58
Allegro/Title-21 Tag Commands ......................................................61
Command Syntax .....................................................................62
Read Tag ID Single (21h) ..............................................................63
Write Request (24h; A003h) ............................................................65
Title-21 ACK Request (24h; C000h) .....................................................66
General ACK Request (24h; F00Fh) .....................................................68
Title-21 Read Request (28h; 8000h) .....................................................69
Read Request (28h; C003h) ............................................................71
Random Number Request (28h; D001h) ..................................................72
TDMA Read Request (28h; E003h) ......................................................74
Jump to Reset Request (2Ch; D203h) ....................................................75
eGo/SeGo Tag Command Set ........................................................77
Command Syntax .....................................................................78
Group Select Options 78
Read Tag ID Single (21h) ..............................................................80
Read Tag ID Multiple (22h) .............................................................81
Standard Syntax 81
Minimal Syntax 83
Write Tag Data (24h) ..................................................................83
Lock Tag Data (25h)...................................................................87
Read Tag Data (28h) ..................................................................89
Custom Tag Operations (2Dh) ..........................................................92
ATA Tag Command Set ..............................................................95
Command Syntax .....................................................................96
Read Tag ID Single (21h) ..............................................................97
Read Tag ID Multiple (22h) .............................................................98
Gen2 Tag Commands ................................................................99
Tag Singulation/Select Functionality.....................................................100
Select Algorithm and Parameters 100
Select Process 101
Flag Persistence Rules 102
Operations supporting Tag Singulation/Select 103
Read Tag Single (21h) ................................................................105
Get Tag EPC 105
Get Tag EPC and Meta Data 106
Read Tag Multiple (22h)...............................................................110