Powerful Board-to-Board Data and Firmware Movement

SHIPBridge is a powerful protocol enabling communications between Serious modules, such as a Serious Integrated Module (SIM) and a Serious Communications Module (SCM)SHIPBridge provides numerous services between the devices, including:

  • Over-the-wire firmware and GUI updates
  • Bidirectional data exchange: pushed, polled, with priority and starvation management
  • Attached-module control and status monitoring

Built Into every SIM and Arm-based SCM

All SIMs running the Serious Human Interface™ Platform (SHIP) embedded runtime firmware, SHIPEngine, come SHIPBridge enabled, and SHIPBridge source code and drivers come with every Arm-based Serious Communications Module (SCM) in the SHIPWare firmware package.

One Protocol - Multiple Interfaces

SHIPBridge currently operates over any of the following physical interfaces:

  • USB (vendor or CDC)
  • UART (including RS422 full duplex connections)
  • Ethernet, WiFi, and other TCP/IP-enabled ports (SCMs only)

On SCMs and SIMs, SHIPBridge can run concurrently over multiple interfaces.

The SHIPBridge Protocol Specification and example drivers are available under NDA from Serious.

Dive Deeper

For more info on the SHIPBridge protocol, see the technical documentation zone or Contact Serious.

Need SHIPBridge in your system to talk with a Serious module? The SHIPBridge Protocol Specification and example drivers are available under NDA from Serious, and our integration team can help port the driver to your platform: contact us today.