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Re: Do you use serialization formats for communication?

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Hi Pozz,

On 20-10-2016 at 0:22, pozz wrote:

> I often have the need to exchange some data between two or more MCUs. I

> usually use I2C or UART as physical layers.

>
> So I'm thinking to use a "self-descriptive" serializer protocol format,
> such as Protobuf, Message Pack, BSON and so on.
>

We use protobuf for our communication (nanopb). We're very happy with it.


> Do you use one serialization format? Which one?
>
> Of course, it should be simple to implement (in transmission/encoding
> and reception/decoding) in a small embedded MCU in C language, without
> dynamic memory support.

We don't use dynamic memory with nanopb. However, we do have some 
'scratch space', which is used as a sort of stack for unknown length 
data, but it is cleared after each time the data is send.

Vincent

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Do you use serialization formats for communication? pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 00:22 +0200
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  Re: Do you use serialization formats for communication? Vincent vB <embedded@spam.com> - 2016-11-11 09:37 +0100
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