App note: Comparing serial data protocols

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1. Alan says:

   September 9, 2012 at 2:21 am

   It’s from 2005, so I can understand the lack of Thunderbolt from the list. But…

   Ethernet? USB? Firewire? JTAG ?
   Ummm… RS232 ? That’s a pretty popular serial protocol.

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   • magetoo says:

     September 9, 2012 at 7:20 pm

     Good point. They all belong in a somewhat different category though, I can not see that one would use any of them to talk to an accelerometer, temperature sensor or D/A converter, which is presumably the sort of thing that were are talking about here.. (i.e. communication between chips in the same system)

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     • Ian says:

       September 10, 2012 at 8:24 am

       That’s my take too. This is most of the popular chip to chip protocols with master to multiple slave topologies. Some chips use UART, which is LIN i guess, but LIN is used in chip to chip stuff in cars sometimes so maybe that justifies it.
   • SoiSentinel says:

     September 11, 2012 at 5:35 pm

     Industrially, it’s mostly covered. The big one they’re missing is RS485, espeically 2 wire multidrop. I see a few categories in this list: No Transciever protocols (those built into an 8 bit micro these days); Transciever protocols (logic engine built in to micros these days, but still need an external signal converter chip), and Controller protocols (higher level protocols). A modern list of this may even include ethernet and USB these days, as that does or almost does fall into the Transciever protocols now.

     Firewire is definitely a Controller level protocol, and JTAG isn’t used for functional communication.

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