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questions about bitGroup and stop bit encoding
Craig Richards / BourseTech <>
27 May 2009 11:03AM ET

From reading the 1.2 proposal, it appears the a bitGroup is fixed length, yet it also uses stop bit encoding, which in other instances is used to determine the length of a field. Are bitGroups in fact of a fixed length? If not, how does the variable length map to the bits in a bitGroup? If so, what is the purpose of the stop bit encoding used in bitGroups?