Hello,
I need to interface a barcode scanner that has a digital output to a UPSD3254.
The output is not RS232, when I scope it I see it change as I pass it over the barcode.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Morison Pund.
Get the interface specification for the scanner!
I now have the interface specification.
When it sees a reflective surface the output is 0V and when it sees a nonreflective surface the output is 5V.
Typically a reflective surface is white and a nonreflective surface is black.
So it is a raw data output from the bar code scanner.
Get a new scanner. Unless you are bar code producer, processing raw data from the sensor is not your core busines.
It takes quite a lot of time to process. And there are huge number of bar codes out there. If it is a pen, then the "baudrate" will greatly vary depending on who is drawing the pen. And with a rotating mirror scanner, the baudrate will depend on the distance between the reader and the barcode.
And you will have to support that the bar code was scanned upside down.
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