 | Example of the Read Buffer and Synch Check blocks behavior. |
In this example, a data message, mixed with other spurious bytes, is expected on the serial port. A buffer is used in order to avoid the lose any data from the buffer. When the output flag of the synch block becomes 1, the read binary block is allowed to read data from buffer. Remember that the Read Binary Buffer block doesn't remove any byte from the buffer until the read of the data (the needed size of the buffer to contain all the desired data is present) is possible.
Layout:
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Behavior table:
| header mask: 0xffff |
| header value: 0x0209 |
| header size: 2 |
| data format: 2i1,3u4,1d8 (2 int8, 3 unsigned int32, 1 double) |
| Incoming String from RS232 (hex) | Common Buffer | In* CK | Out* CK | In* RB | Out* RB | Notes |
| 00 01 04 06 07 | 00 01 04 06 07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The header value searched is not in the buffer. All the bytes are discarded |
| 00 02 09 01 00 00 00 | 00 02 09 01 00 00 00 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | The header value searched is in the buffer. All the bytes before 02 09 are discarded. The control is passed to the read block that has not enough bytes in the buffer input. The read block doesn't modify the buffer. |
| 06 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | 02 09 01 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | The check block still detected the presence of the header. The buffer is not large enough to contain all data needed from the read operation. The buffer remains unchanged. |
| 00 F0 3F 71 77 72 AB 3F | 02 09 01 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F0 3F 71 77 72 AB 3F | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | The check block still detected the presence of the header. The buffer is large enough to contain all data needed from the read operation. The data read is removed from the buffer. |
| 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F0 3F 71 77 72 | 71 77 72 AB 3F 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F0 3F | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | The synch block didn't detected any header. All the data bytes will be removed at the next step (only the last header-size number of bytes is not removed from the buffer. |
| - | 71 77 72 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | No data at input |
| 04 06 07 02 09 01 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | 71 77 72 04 06 07 02 09 01 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | The header value searched is in the buffer. All the bytes before 02 09 are discarded. The control is passed to the read block that has not enough bytes in the buffer input. The read block doesn't modify the buffer. |
*Legenda for the status of the input ports:
| 0: Not enabled for write |
| 1: Enabled for write |
| 2: Wait for completion |
*Legenda for the status of the output ports:
| 0: Do Not Enable the next block |
| 1: Enable the next block |
This page has been updated on day 05/03/03.