

peripherals can be connected to a common bus and are logically separated by a device address. It operates at TTL voltages and is ‘multi-drop’ i.e. The main difference is that it uses a single two-way communication data line for half-duplex communication rather than separate transmit and receives lines.

The protocol uses an asynchronous transfer of character frames in a similar manner to RS232. The first release of the protocol was in 1996. The protocol was developed at a company called Coin Controls (hence coin-controls-talk, later called Money Controls and from 2010 Crane Payment Solutions) on the outskirts of Manchester in north-west England mainly by Engineer Andrew William Barson. (The other is the Host Intelligent Interface protocol developed by Mars Electronics International). The ccTalk protocol is one of 2 protocols specified by BACTA for use in all AWP machines with serial coin acceptors. Peripherals such as the currency detectors for coins and banknotes found in a diverse range of automatic payment equipment such as transportation, ticketing, payphones, amusement machines, and retail cash management use ccTalk to talk to the host controller. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĬcTalk (pronounced see-see-talk) is a serial protocol in widespread use throughout the money transaction and point-of-sale industry.

