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It's a game-changer in the hobbyist marine-electronics world. The marine electronics field is littered with various weird proprietary protocols that are _almost
by emilecantin 6y ago
It's a game-changer in the hobbyist marine-electronics world. The marine electronics field is littered with various weird proprietary protocols that are _almost_ the same as open standards in other industries, but not quite. Examples include:
- NMEA0183, which is electrically RS-422 (similar to the ubiquitous RS-232, but only sometimes)
- NMEA2000, which is basically CAN
- Seatalk, which looks like NMEA0183 but is electrically inverted (1 is 0 and vice versa) and also uses weird byte lengths (9-bit?)
- Seatalk-ng, which is basically NMEA2000 with a few more message types
A $4 device that can translate arbitrary weird PHY protocols into a bitstream on a USB port is awesome in this world.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoI am beyond skeptical this will be adequate for NMEA/CAN for the very reason myself and others explain in the rest of the thread. This will get you wiggling output pins, not a replacement for dedicated protocol hardware or a actual programmable logic.