Hitachi HC4300

  • The Hitachi HC4300 protocol was developed by HITACHI company for communication between control stations and substations.

    The physical layer is based on a SDLC standard format.

    Hitachi HC4300 operates in half-duplex mode based on the master/slave principle. While one master can communicate with up to 15 RTUs, each RTU only responds to explicit requests from the master.

ISO/OSI Model
7 Application Layer HITACHI HC4300 Application Layer
6 Presentation Layer n/a
5 Session Layer n/a
4 Transport Layer n/a
3 Network Layer n/a
2 Link Layer n/a
1 Physical Layer SDLC framing
RS232 (V.24)
Supported Information Types
Control Direction
  • Double Command
Monitoring Direction
  • Single indication [1 Bit]
  • Single indication [1 Bit] with time tag
  • Measured value [12 bit]
  • Counter value [16 bit]
Protocol Features
  • Physical Layer

    PCM, half-duplex, SDLC frame format/synchronisation
    Baud rates up to 2400

  • Application Layer

    on-demand transmission of analog and counter values
    on-demand transmission and transmission on change of single point indications
    transmission of single point indications with time tag
    "Select before operate" transmission of commands

  • Address Space

    RTU addresses 1..15
    binary indications: 3 groups with 16 words each. Each word contains 16 bit.
    Measured values: 8 groups with 16 measured values each

Available Protocol Stacks

HITACHI HC4300, Master

HITACHI HC4300, Slave

Applicable Products
  • ipConvLite
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  • ipConvLite/MEC2PBS
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  • ipConvLite/MEC2PBM
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  • ipConvLite/MEC2PNS
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  • ipConv
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References
  • ABBHTC
    ABBHTC, Iran

    Products: ipConv
    Protocol Stacks: HITACHI HC4300, Slave IEC 60870-5-101, Master