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PADCOUNT padCount - Telemetry Field

"Pad byte count after telemetry header" (APP/LCM)

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    Focus: Maintenance / Operation
    Structures: Abstract / Concrete

Definition:

    APID:990/0x3DE
    Attribute(s):
    ITOS desc:"Pad byte count after packet"
    ITOS name:LPADCOUNT
    ITOS type:U12
    Length: 16 bits (2 bytes)
    Offset:0x00E

Description:

    For proper transfer over SDI, packets must be rounded up to multiple of 16 bytes. This is the number of bytes added after the payload to do this alignment.