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Re: LNP Repost (Me banging on about checksums)
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:30:06 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Kekoa Proudfoot writes:
> Regarding the CRC, I would use a CRC8 unless practice shows that a CRC16 is
> required. I would look ahead to the day when a CRC16 is used and choose
> the more important byte of the CRC16 to be the CRC8. Tagging an extra byte
> onto the end of a message can then be completely backwards compatible
> assuming you write the software correctly.
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> -Kekoa
With much respect, I would suggest that CRC8 is probably not sufficient,
especially if we go for a broadcast (Ethernet) solution, where lots of
collisions, and hence errors, will probably occur - with CRC8 you will
probably miss about 1 in 256 errors, which sounds rather high.
Can I suggest the checksum mechanism I recently posted - we can have a 16 bit
checksum at lower CPU code size & execution speed costs, but with error
detection almost the equal of any CRC16.
This is a software protocol, lets use a software solution, not a hardware
solution!
Kevin.
P.S. Sorry - I promise not to mention it again!!!!
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| (...) You will miss about 1 in 256 errors that you do not catch earlier using collision detection. I think your error rate per message will be much less than 1 in 256 if you (can?) get the collision detection code right. But we shouldn't argue the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) My only thoughts are that not everybody will need or want the generality of port support in the protocol. I would suggest reordering the first four bytes, moving the payload length up toward the front, and defining it to explicitly include the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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