Asyst Technologies Advantag 9100 User manual

Rev. AX5 Date: 03/31/2003
Printed on Standard Paper
P/N: 2000-3160-02
Copyright ©2003
Asyst Technologies, Incorporated
All rights reserved.
Preliminary
AdvanTag 9100
AdvanTag Gateway
Technical Manual

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Manual Information
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Part Number: 2000-3160-02
Date: 03/31/2003
Release: x
Printing Description: Printed on Standard Paper.
Asyst Technologies, Inc.
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Acronym List
AMHS Automated Material Handling System
ASCII American Standard Coding for Information Interchange
ATR AdvanTag Reader
CAN Control Area Network
CIM Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
EMF Electromagnetic Field
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
EMO Emergency (Machine) Off
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
MID Material IDentification
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
PN or P/N Part Number
RFID Radio Frequency IDentification
SECS Semiconductor Equipment Communication Standard
SEMI Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International
SMIF Standard Mechanical Interface

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Revision History
Date Author Version Revision Information
02/11/2003 Royden Tonomura AX1 Original version
02/27/2003 AX2 Added ECID table
Deleted mounting photos
Added tables for CAN and Ethernet ports
02/28/2003 AX3 Added Gateway information
Updated antenna graphs for tubular antennas
03/07/2003 AX4 Updated power information
Revised Gateway photo
03/31/2003 AX5 Added disclaimers on Node Address panel and antenna
installation

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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Disclaimers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i
Manual Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i
Equipment Modification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i
Training and Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i
Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .i
Reader Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Acronym List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Purpose and Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Safety Tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 1: General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Technical Data (Specifications and Outline Drawing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
General Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Servicing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ESD / EMI Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Electrical Power/Input Power Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Warranty and Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Location of Labels used on the AdvanTag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2: Theory of Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
AdvanTag Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
AdvanTag Gateway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Multiplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Protocols and Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Message Format and Translation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Messages Supported. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Baud rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Integration of Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Data Storage—AdvanTag Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
MicroTags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
AdvanTag Gateway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Commands Supported by the Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Commands Routed to the Heads (ATR 9100s connected on the CAN bus):
22
Code Upgrade Functionality in ATR Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Power Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Host Comm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Read/Write (9100 Reader only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
External Presence (9100 Reader only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Ethernet (in development) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Buttons/Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Code Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Long Range (9100 Reader only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Node Address (9100 Reader only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
To Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Read Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECS/ASCII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Serial Communications Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
CAN Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Ethernet Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Antenna Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Read/Write Performance Factors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
RF Field Diagrams (9100 Reader only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Stick Antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 3: Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Troubleshooting Chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33