I need to write a fairly quick and dirty BER tester to provide a rough evaluation of an ASK Manchester radio system. Can someone recommend a good online reference on the low-level details of this? What I'm most interested in is how to resync after a corrupted bit. I do have a packet engine available to me, but I'm unsure of the best practice to use here. The engine (which is hardware) silently discards corrupted packets based on a CRC check. So... should I use the packet engine with a small packet size and call the whole packet bad if I miss one? I was thinking that a bit-banged approach is probably superior, and will certainly give better accuracy.
Anyway, a good reference or two would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!