1.PROTOCOL SPECIFICATIONS
1.1Hardware Specifications
1.2Interface Specifications
1.3System Options
2.COMMUNICATION MESSAGE SPECIFICATIONS
2.1Establishment of Communication
2.2Format Common to Messages
2.2.1Characters
2.2.2Message structure
2.2.3Check digit (CD) (option)
2.2.4Response message format
2.2.5Abnormal responses to ACK
2.2.6ACK/NACK without STX/ETX
2.2.7Types of transmission messages
2.3Order Request Message [Q] (from TBA to HOST)
2.4Order Message [O] (from HOST to TBA)
2.5Result Message [R] (from TBA to HOST)
2.6Result Request Message [T] (from HOST to TBA)
2.7Result Control Message [C] (from HOST to TBA)
2.8Initialize Session Request Message [I] (from
2.9Release Master Message [M] (from HOST to TBA)
2.10Release Master Message [M] (from TBA to HOST
2.11Calibration Result Message (S) (from TBA to
2.12Absorbance Result Message [A] (from TBA to H
2.13Message Priority
2.14Examples of Sessions
3.INFORMATION HANDLING FOR EACH PROTOCOL TYPE
3.1General Conditions
3.1.1Samples without barcode label
3.1.2STAT sample measurement
3.1.3Rerun and additional assay run
3.2Type 1 (Internal mode)
3.3Type 1' (Internal/External mode)
3.4Type 1" (External mode)
3.5Type 2 (Internal/External mode)
3.6Type 3 (Internal mode)
3.7Type 4 (External mode)
3.8Type 5 (Internal mode)
4.ERROR HANDLING
4.1Error Conditions
4.2Error Handling
4.2.1Error handling for protocol types 1, 1', an
4.2.2Error handling for protocol types 2, 3, 4, a
4.2.3Error handling for protocol types 1, 1', and
4.2.4Error handling for protocol types 2, 3, 4, a
4.3Transmission Timing Chart