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Thingmagic M5e-Compact User Manual (252 pages)

Brand: Thingmagic | Category: Hardware | Size: 1.59 MB |

English

Table of contents

Mercury5e and M5e-Compact

1

Developer’s Guide

1

Revision Table

3

Date Version Description

4

Industry Canada

7

Contents

9

Introduction

21

Product Line Overview

22

Hardware Overview

23

RFID ASIC

24

Connectors

24

Hardware Revisions

25

SW Overview

26

Boot Loader

27

Application Firmware

27

About the Reader Assistant

28

Application Development

28

Regional Support

29

CAUTION!

31

Frequency Setting

32

Frequency Hop Table

33

EU3 Region

34

PRC Region

34

KR2 Region

34

RF Power Setting

35

Antenna Ports

36

Monostatic Mode

37

Bistatic Mode

37

Using a Multiplexer

37

Power Management

40

Low Power Mode

41

Tag Buffer

42

Tag Operations

45

Flash Memory

45

Accessing the Flash

46

Upgrading Application FW

46

Direct Flash Addressing

46

M4e Direct Flash Addressing

47

M5e Flash Addressing

48

Serial Port

49

M5e and M5e-Compact GPIOs

50

Default Settings

51

Protocol

53

Host-to-Reader Communication

54

Field Length Description

54

CCITT CRC-16 Cal

54

Reader-to-Host Communication

55

CCITT CRC-16 Calculation

56

Microprocessor ACK Message

58

Command Set 63

63

Boot Loader Commands

64

Command Set 65

65

Read Flash (02h)

66

Command Set 67

67

Boot Firmware (04h)

69

Set Baud Rate (06h)

69

FF 04 06 00 01 C2 00 A4 60

70

FF 00 08 1D 07

71

FF 00 09 1D 06

71

Get Current Program (0Ch)

72

Write Flash Sector (0Dh)

72

Get Sector Size (0Eh)

73

Modify Flash Sector (0Fh)

73

Select Process

77

Flag Persistence Rules

78

Command Set 79

79

80 Command Set

80

Example:

81

Gen2 Memory Map

82

Read Tag Single (21h)

83

Select Data CRC

84

86 Command Set

86

Command Set 87

87

Read Tag Multiple (22h)

89

90 Command Set

90

Tag Inventory with Select

91

94 Command Set

94

Command Set 95

95

96 Command Set

96

Command Set 97

97

Write Tag EPC (23h)

98

Status CRC

99

Write Tag Data (24h)

100

Application Tag Commands

101

Write Tag Data Fields

101

Field Value Description

101

Examples

102

Select Data Write Data CRC

103

104 Command Set

104

Select EPC ID CRC

105

Read Tag Data (28h)

107

Get Tag Data

108

Get Tag Data and Meta Data

109

110 Command Set

110

Appendix C: Error Messages

111

Field Length Value

111

Error Status Codes

112

SOH Length OpCode CRC

113

Get Tag EPCs

114

Get Tag EPCs and Metadata

115

116 Command Set

116

FF 03 29 00 15 00 97 55

117

118 Command Set

118

Command Set

120

Partial Load Image

121

Full Load Image

121

122 Command Set

122

Command Set 123

123

126 Command Set

126

LoadImage

126

 Reserved Memory

126

 EPC Memory

126

 User Memory

126

128 Command Set

128

BlockReadLock

128

130 Command Set

130

132 Command Set

132

Set ReadProtect

132

Reset ReadProtect

133

134 Command Set

134

Change EAS

134

Command Set 135

135

136 Command Set

136

Calibrate

137

138 Command Set

138

ChangeConfig

138

Command Set 139

139

140 Command Set

140

QT Read/Write

141

142 Command Set

142

IDS SL900A (Chip Type=0x0A)

143

BlockWrite (2Dh)

144

BlockPermaLock (2Eh)

146

148 Command Set

148

BlockErase (2Eh)

149

150 Command Set

150

Set Application Commands

152

Set Antenna Port (91h)

153

Set Read TX Power (92h)

156

Set Write TX Power (94h)

157

Set Frequency Hop Table (95h)

158

Set User GPIO Outputs (96h)

159

SOH Length OpCode Region CRC

160

Set Power Mode (98h)

161

Set User Mode (99h)

161

Set Reader Configuration(9Ah)

162

164 Command Set

164

166 Command Set

166

Note: Searches using the

166

168 Command Set

168

Get Application Commands

169

Get Hardware Version (10h)

170

Non-Multiplexer Options

171

Logical Antenna Options

172

SOH Length OpCode Option CRC

173

Get Reader Configuration(6Ah)

181

Get Reader Statistics (6Ch)

182

184 Command Set

184

FCC Test Commands

187

SOH Length OpCode CW CRC

188

Appendix A: Hardware Details

189

Mechanicals

190

M5e Mechanicals

190

Antenna Connector

191

Communications Connector

192

Devkit Hardware

193

Devkit USB Interface

194

Devkit Jumpers

195

Devkit Schematics

196

Demo Application

197

Arbser Command Line Utility

198

Reading a Tag

199

Get Version Command

200

Boot Firmware Command

201

Set Current Region Command

203

Set Read TX Power Command

204

Set Antenna Port Command

204

Unexpected Results

207

No Tag ID is Returned

208

FAULT_INVALID_OPCODE – 101h

212

FAULT_INVALID_REGION – 10Bh

215

Bootloader Faults

216

Flash Faults

217

Solution

219

Protocol Faults

220

FAULT_NO_TAGS_FOUND – 400h

221

FAULT_AFE_NOT_ON – 405h

222

FAULT_DATA_TOO_LARGE – 40Bh

224

FAULT_HIGH_RETURN_LOSS – 505h

228

Tag ID Buffer Faults

230

System Errors

232

Commands

233

Release Version 1.0.34

234

SOH Length OpCod

235

Lock Tag (25h)

237

Kill Tag (26h)

238

Write Tag Data

239

SOH Length OpCode Options CRC

245

Appendix E: Environmental

247

Considerations

247

Raising the ESD Threshold

250

Environmental

251

Tag Considerations

251

Multiple Readers

252

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