Acuitas Fast Message Protocol (AFM)

Acuitas Fast Message Protocol (AFM)

Introduction

The Acuitas Fast Message Protocol (AFM) is a binary protocol for optimized for high speed, hardware-in-the-loop application. The AFM protocol is available on Acuitas Control System (ACS) from Firmware Version >= 1.4.2.0.

With the link below you can download a simple AFM example written in C#.

To open and compile the examples you will need Visual Studio 2015 (for AFM Example Version 1.0.0.1) resp. Visual Studio 2019 (for AFM Example Version 1.2.0.0) or newer. Community Edition is sufficient. Simply double click on "Acuitas_AFM_Example.sln" to open the solution with the example.

Download AFM Protocol Manual
See Attached PDF file.

Download AFM Example (Version 1.0.0.1 & Version 1.2.0.0)

See attached Zip-Files
To extract the compressed file we recommend 7-Zip or any similar software.
The version of the AFM Example corresponds to the version of the AFM protocol. Please refer to the protocol manual to correspond to the AFM protocol version.


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