This is a "try" to establish an BITBUS online documentation. Currently it is in development ... so here is nothing more than the table of contents.


1. Preface

2. Basic technologys

2.1. Layered communication model

2.2. Message passing

2.3. Multi-Tasking

2.4. RAC/GBS Task

2.5. Robustness

2.5.1. RS485

2.5.2. CRC

2.5.3. Low-level handshaking

2.6. MASTER/SLAVE

3. The physical layer

3.1. RS485

3.2. Connectors

3.3. Cableing and termination

4. The link layer

4.1. SDLC framing

4.2. CRC-CCITT

4.3. Handshaking

4.4. Memory management

4.5. Error conditions

5. Application layer

5.1. Tasks

5.2. RAC/GBS Task

5.2.1. Task related services

5.2.2. Memory up/downlaod

5.2.3. I/O manipulation

5.2.4. Node information

5.2.5. RESET

6. User Tasks and how to write them

6.1. iDCX51 / BROS

6.2. MOCOM mCAT

6.3. SYSTEM Electronics DICO

7. BAPI