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6.5 MDB
6.5.1 General Description
MDB (Multi-Drop Bus) is used in the vending industry and is now an open standard
in the NAMA (National Automatic Merchandising Association) so that all vending and
peripheral equipment communicates identically. MDB uses a master-slave model
where the VMC (Vending Mechanism Controller) is the master that can communicate
with up to 32 slaves (e.g. banknote validator or coin acceptor). Please contact
support@innovative-technology.com for further information.
Innovative Technology Ltd.
provides full SDK packages
including Interface Specification,
Implementation Guide as well as
source code examples for SSP
respectively eSSP only!
6.5.3 IF5 Interface
The IF5 allows the BV50 to operate with MDB machines no matter the voltage
(24/34/48). A link to the IF5 can be found below.