To be fair to the original author, this 254-byte payload size was mentioned in the original paper, but not emphasized, or probably “lost in translation” in these source code examples and test cases. This is not the case for many embedded system application. It could only work if the COBS decoder takes in that 257 bytes as a whole before decoding, rather than decoding packet-by-packet. Even worse, the C-code in the original paper gives that same result as test case 10. Unfortunately there are many open source projects of COBS encode/decoder (in C, Python, Javascript, etc.) that agree with the Wikipedia test case 10. So the total encoded byte stream should be 258-byte, not 257-byte. Notice the extra byte 01, comparing with Wikipedia result.

The COBS of test case 10 should beįE 03 04 05 … FF 01 (255-byte packet) + 02 01 00 With 255-byte packet, the payload size should only be 254-byte. Now let me explain why the Wikipedia description of COBS could be very misleading.Īfter it mentions the packet size being 255-byte, it then shows a long stream of 255 bytes get COBS encoded into 257 bytes In this article, I will define this number to be 5, to better illustrate the issue. In fact, this number needs to equal your packet (or frame) size. pointer number is defined as 255 (0xFF) in the original paper. Thus, “0” can be used to mark the end of the stream, in a protocol.īecause it is designed for byte-oriented communication protocol, the max. The basic idea of COBS is to keep a running pointer (relative to the previous “0” position) of “0” occurrences, which replaces the original “0”s in a byte stream. Yes, embedded systems are still using serial port today (year 2019).

It is a very useful technique to learn for embedded system, since anecdotally 10% of any hardware engineer’s time is spent (wasted) struggling with serial port communication, for each project. There are plenty of reference material: Wikipedia page and the original paper, even with C source code to get you familiar with the method. tCellSelectionEnabled(true) tSelectionMode(ListSelectionModel.HDLC introduced a common byte stuffing method (with 0x7D, 0x7E), until the advent of clever COBS. tBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder(īorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(), 'ODI Rankings', TitledBorder.CENTER, TitledBorder.TOP)) It allows you to select one cell at a time − Example package my The following is an example of Single Selection mode for a JTable. Let us see the selection modes one by one − Single Selection mode Selection modes sets the table's selection mode to allow only single selections, a single contiguous interval, or multiple intervals.

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