Overview;
                          
                          
                              - The system components communicate each other by cyclic 
                                transfer mechanism using common memory reserved at each node. Each 
                                common memory has two types of memory area. The first one is byte type 
                                and the second is word type. 
                                The total size of the common memory area is not necessarily the same 
                                for each node. Each node sends its local data to the network and 
                                receives the data from other nodes, 
                                refreshing its common area for both area-1 and area-2 periodically. 
                                The application on the node has only to access the common area to get 
                                the other's local data . 
 
                           
                          
                          
                              - Each node specifies its common memory by offset and size. value.
 
                            - The maximum size is 0.5 k-word for area-1and 8 k-word for area-2.
 
                            - Each node sends its local data on area-1 and area-2 when it holds the token.
 
                            - The data more than 1024 bytes is transferred being divided into several blocks up to 1024 bytes.
 
                            - No common memory area is shared by more than two nodes, that is, the offset value of each node must be the different each other.
 
                           
                          
                          
                              - Only one frame of message before the cyclic frame is 
                                transferable. 
                                The receiving node responds ACK signal to notify that it has received 
                                the message within three times until it receives the sending node's ACK.
                                The message shall not be divided. That means the maximum message 
                                length must be 1024 bytes.
 
                           
                          
                          
                              - Message transmission function is to realize asynchronous data 
                                exchange between nodes.
                                There are two modes for message transmission. One is "Unicast mode" 
                                that transfers message to a specified node, the other is "Broadcast 
                                mode" that transfers to all of the nodes.
 
                           
                           
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