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The Source & Destination Identifiers merit some specific discussion. Boards each have an 8-bit unique Identifier that fully defines that board, and cannot be shared between boards. This allows for a possible 256 HONEY-compliant boards to be used within the STINGR suite. This 8-bit identifier is known as the '''Absolute Board Identifier (ABI)'''.

The Source & Destination Identifiers merit some specific discussion. Boards each have an 8-bit unique Identifier that fully defines that board, and cannot be shared between boards. This allows for a possible 256 HONEY-compliant boards to be used within the STINGR suite. This 8-bit identifier is known as the '''Absolute Board Identifier (ABI)'''.

When a flight stack is constructed and assembled, it ends up being comprised of a series of boards each with one of these unique, enumerated identifiers. It should be noted that a flight stack '''cannot exceed''' 15 boards total (3U). Upon boot-up, the Avionics receives a variety of messages from STINGR identifying all boards in the flight stack, and re-labels the identifiers to the ''Flight Stack Identifiers'' (FSI) format, whereby all 8-bit identifiers are re-categorized and re-assigned into 4-bit stack-relative addresses.  

When a flight stack is constructed and assembled, it ends up being comprised of a series of boards each with one of these unique, enumerated identifiers. It should be noted that a flight stack '''cannot exceed''' 15 boards total (3U). Upon boot-up, the Avionics receives a variety of messages from STINGR identifying all boards in the flight stack, and re-labels the identifiers to the '''Flight Stack Identifiers''' (FSI) format, whereby all 8-bit identifiers are re-categorized and re-assigned into 4-bit stack-relative addresses.  

More details about the re-assignment process can be found in the operations section of STINGR, below on this page.

More details about the re-assignment process can be found in the operations section of STINGR, below on this page.