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Subject: 
Re: decoding a message sent by an RCX
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 4 Sep 1999 00:02:55 GMT
Original-From: 
Shawn Menninga <SMQ@DWARFRUNE.stopspamCOM>
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At 23:11 03-09-99 GMT, you wrote:
1. The crynwr page states that the serial format is :
NRZ, 1 start, 8 data, odd parity, 1 stop bit

  I'm not used to seeing 8 bits with a parity bit, as a sanity check
does this mean that each byte is 11 bits (1 start, 8 data, 1 parity,
1 stop) - OR am I misunderstanding this somehow.  Since the RCX can
send 0-255 as messages, I
THINK that I'm correct.  Can someone set me straight on this?

You are right - 11 bits. The parity bit is set, so the total number of
one's is an odd number.

  Yep, exactly.  LSB first with 0 = carrier and 1 = no carrier at 40kHz.
The following is a transcription of a send of message 156 (9C hex) from
the RCX.  (hex 55 ff 00 f7 9C 63 93 6C, three bytes to a line)

0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
,-. ,-. ,-. ,-. ,-.   ,-.                   ,-----------------.
  `-' `-' `-' `-' `---' `-------------------'                 `---'
S 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 P S S 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 P S S 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 P S

0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1
,-.     ,-.       ,-. ,-----.     ,---.     ,-.   ,-----.   ,-.
  `-----' `-------' `-'     `-----'   `-----' `---'     `---' `---'
S 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 P S S 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 P S S 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 P S

0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1
,-.   ,---. ,---.     ,-----.   ,-.   ,-.
  `---'   `-'   `-----'     `---' `---' `----
S 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 P S S 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 P S


-SMQ                        Shawn Menninga                smq@dwarfrune.com
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