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~ In the case where the destination slave is ready to receive data, it sends a "permission to transmit" and prepares to receive
Z: data. The master, on receiving this "permission to transmit" sends it to the source slave and prepares for a transparent transfer
c( of data from source slave to destination slave. The source transmits data and if it reaches the destination without error, the
destination slave sends an acknowledge byte. The data/acknowledge cycle continues until the last page of data is transferred.
At this point the destination slave sends a special acknowledge called an EaT ("end of transmission") terminating the communication
sequence and releasing the master to poll the next slave (see Figure 5).
START AT 3
3) CAN YOU RECEIVE
(4 &: 5) PERMISSION TO XMIT
(6&:7) 1-254 BYTES SENT (1 PAGE)
TO DEST SLAVE
MASTER TRANSPARENT
8) RECEIVED DATA
PACKET (ACK)
9) ACK DATA RECEIVED
- ANY MORE PAGES?
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(NO ERRORS)
ERROR HANDLING
FIGURE 5
DATA TRANSMISSION
(SOURCE AND DESTINATION READY)
TL/F/9339-5
Recovery from transmission error is handled in the following way. If any node (either master or slave) detects an error while
receiving any message from the network (data or control), it sends an error message to the sending node. On receiving an error
message, a node retransmits its last message (examples are shown in Figure 6). This may continue to a limit of five retransmission
attempts per communication sequence. An error message is simply the error flag register of the DP8343 receiver indicating
the type of error that occurred. The receiver provides the following types of internal error checking:
- Data overflow
- Parity error
- Transmit check
- Invalid ending sequence
- Loss of mid-bit transition
- New starting sequence before read
- Receiver disabled while active
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