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Computers as Components, 2nd Edition
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Computers as Components, 2nd Edition

by Marilyn Wolf
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
16h 52m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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3.1 Programming Input and Output 93
The UART is programmable for a variety of transmission and reception parameters.
However, the basic format of transmission is simple. Data are transmitted as streams of
characters, each of which has the following form:
Bit 0
Bit n–1
Time
Start
bit
Stop bit
. . .
Every character starts with a start bit (a 0) and a stop bit (a 1). The start bit allows the receiver
to recognize the start of a new character; the stop bit ensures that there will be a transition at
the start of the stop bit. The data bits are sent as high and low voltages at a uniform rate. That
rate is known as the baud rate; the period of one bit is the inverse ...
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