Serial Protocols

North Star develops custom serial protocols for many applications:

• machine control

• servo control

• user-programming

• diagnostic ports

• help menus

• wireless RF transceiver interfaces

• TV camera control

• IR camera control

• lens control

• laser control

• weapon mount control

• VCR record/playback deck control

• VCR multi-deck editing

• fiber optic distribution network control and switching

• compressed audio data packets, transmit, receive, parse

• manchester-encoded data

Serial protocols may include:

• headers, tags, packet ID

• data (compressed or encoded)

• checksums for error detection

• SLIP processing for error detection and packet end identification

North Star has experience with RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485 wired bidirectional serial communications, 900 MHz wireless communications, 2.5GHz wireless communications, and processor-to-processor serial communications in multi-processor systems.  Contact us with your application ideas.