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Appendix D
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Communication Protocol
The AD board has a PIC processor that communicates thru a serial port on J1 or J2. J1 is a 5 volt buffered port for
integration into a portable unit. J2 is for communication to a standard PC com port. Communications for both
will be at 57600 baud, 8N1.
The communication protocol is designed to be simple and is only printable characters to be readable from a
terminal program such as HyperTerminal.
Messages are in the form:
@xx#<cr-lf>
The parts are:
@ - beginning of message
xx - is the message type
# - end of message
<cr-lf> - is a carriage return / line feed at end of message