SERIAL COMMUNICATION MODULE WITH MULTIPLE RECEIVER/TRANSMITTERS

Implementing serial communications between a master module and at least one slave module in a communications network includes initializing a first receiver/transmitter of the master module to space parity, initializing a second receiver/transmitter of the master module to mark parity, and determining whether a first byte of a message is a command byte or a data byte. If the first byte is a data byte, the first byte is transmitted to the at least one slave module using the first receiver/transmitter. If the first byte is a command byte, the first byte is transmitted to the at least one slave module using the second receiver/transmitter.