Prabo Semasinghe Blog on EmbeddedRelated.com https://www.embeddedrelated.com/blogs-1/nf/Prabo_Semasinghe.php Prabo Semasinghe Blog on EmbeddedRelated.com https://www.embeddedrelated.com/blogs-1/nf/Prabo_Semasinghe.php https://d23s79tivgl8me.cloudfront.net/user/profilepictures/175988.jpg en-US Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:38:58 +0000 1780771138 Beyond the Packet: Designing Reliable Serial Communication for Embedded Systems https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1794.php Serial communication between microcontrollers sounds simple. You send bytes from one side and then you receive them from the otherside. Done, right?

It is really more than that. I've spent a good part of my career as a firmware engineer working on systems where multiple microcontrollers need to talk to each other reliably. Communication protocol is one of those things that can quietly break...]]> Mon, 04 May 2026 14:50:24 +0000 Prabo Semasinghe