7.2.10 More statements

The sat-nms device driver definition language contains some more statements which have not yet been described in this document. They are:

DELAY Pauses the device driver execution for some time.
LOG Adds a message to the event log.
DRATE Computes an interface data rate from a symbol rate.
SRATE Computes a symbol rate from a interface data rate.
WRITEHEX Outputs a variable containing a hex dump string as binary data.
READHEX Reads binary data from the device and formats this as a hex dump string into a variable.
INVALIDATE Invalidates a variable, marks it to be read back as soon as possible.
SYNC Syncs a variable, updates the value to be commanded with the value recently read back from the device.
RAISECOMMFAULT Makes the driver to raise a communication fault.