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Beyond the Packet: Designing Reliable Serial Communication for Embedded Systems

Prabo SemasinghePrabo Semasinghe May 4, 2026

Serial communication between microcontrollers sounds simple until the protocol quietly breaks your system. Prabo Semasinghe walks through the design steps for building a robust communication framework: packet structure, error detection, acknowledgment handling, state machine design, and the failure-mode testing that actually proves it works.


Beyond the Packet: Designing Reliable Serial Communication for Embedded Systems

Prabo SemasinghePrabo Semasinghe May 4, 2026

Serial communication between microcontrollers sounds simple until the protocol quietly breaks your system. Prabo Semasinghe walks through the design steps for building a robust communication framework: packet structure, error detection, acknowledgment handling, state machine design, and the failure-mode testing that actually proves it works.


The 2026 Embedded Online Conference