User Guide
Table Of 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
- FCC 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_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
Allegro/Title-21 Tag Commands
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Write Request (24h; A003h)
The Write Request command writes data to the specified area of the specified tag. A non-
acknowledge (NACK) error response shall be returned if an invalid password was
included in the request. This command contains the following request fields:
Write Request Fields
Examples
An example command requesting ? be written to tag ? with a User Password = 0x? is:
Field Value Description
TM OpCode 0x24 TM OpCode for tag modification operations
Timeout [2 bytes] Indicates how long the command should spend
attempting the operation, in milliseconds.
TM Options 0x00 Reserved for Future Use.
Transaction Type Code 0xA003 Allegro/Title-21 code indicating operation to per-
form.
Options [1 byte] Command specific options
Page Number [2 bytes] Indicates which page of the tag is to be written to.
Tag ID [4 bytes] Optional, based on value of Options parameter.
Indicates the ID of the tag to operate on.
User Password/
Global Password
[4/8 bytes] Optional, based on the value of the Options param-
eter. The password to operation on the tag, if
required.
Page Data Byte Count [1 byte] Indicates the number of data bytes to follow.
Page Data Bytes [N bytes] Data to write to the tag.
FF 0E + N 24 ?? ?? 00 A0 03 ?? ?? ??
SOH Length TM
OpCode
Timeout
(ms)
TM
Option
Transaction
Type Code
Option Page
Number
?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? NN NN ?? ??
Tag ID User/Global
Password
Page
Data
Count
Page Data CRC