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Protocol type?
« on: October 20, 2020, 03:13:10 am »
Forgive my ignorance, I am probing the output of the COB IC of my "Kaiweets" HT118A DMM, hoping to find RS232 being pumped out, and I came across this waveform (pin # impossible to know, since it's COB)... does anyone recognise this?

{Update}: I've attached a zipped pulseview session too.

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Re: Protocol type?
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2020, 08:37:59 pm »
Gosh, no one?  ;)
 

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Re: Protocol type?
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2020, 08:42:02 pm »
Gosh, no one?  ;)
Looked yesterday and all I could see was several clock bursts.  :-//
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Re: Protocol type?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2020, 09:43:08 pm »
Gosh, no one?  ;)
Looked yesterday and all I could see was several clock bursts.  :-//

Thanks for looking :) - I have captured more in "PulseView" and applied the "UART" filter - how does one know how accurate said filter is, though? Is there some form of file format I could share here, to make the full capture more accessible to people who could ID the pulses?

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Re: Protocol type?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2020, 07:01:41 pm »
Is this any more meaningful?:

 

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Re: Protocol type?
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2020, 11:09:00 pm »
This doesn't look like UART at all. Should be a clock line of some synchronous bus transferring 8-bit values (8 shorter pulses separated by a longer one). Are there any other signals belonging to the same bus? (i.e. other pins of the same connectors or PCB pads grouped together with this one). Look for a data signal clocked by this line (some less regular signal with a frequency <=1/2 of this clock, with all transitions during the same clock levels).
 
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Re: Protocol type?
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2020, 12:44:04 am »
This doesn't look like UART at all. Should be a clock line of some synchronous bus transferring 8-bit values (8 shorter pulses separated by a longer one). Are there any other signals belonging to the same bus? (i.e. other pins of the same connectors or PCB pads grouped together with this one). Look for a data signal clocked by this line (some less regular signal with a frequency <=1/2 of this clock, with all transitions during the same clock levels).

I'll look, thanks. But if it's not UART, why does the UART filter seem to (sort of) decode it?
 

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Re: Protocol type?
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2020, 01:03:03 am »
This doesn't look like UART at all. Should be a clock line of some synchronous bus transferring 8-bit values (8 shorter pulses separated by a longer one). Are there any other signals belonging to the same bus? (i.e. other pins of the same connectors or PCB pads grouped together with this one). Look for a data signal clocked by this line (some less regular signal with a frequency <=1/2 of this clock, with all transitions during the same clock levels).

It might be just be the clock line of an SPI bus whilst transmitting a multi-byte message.
 
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