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Table of Contents

Chapter One. Introduction to Serial I/O Communications

Chapter Two. Serial I/O Primer: A Short Course in Data Communications and Networking

Serial versus Parallel Transfer

Serial Data Rate

Data Rate versus Bandwidth

Balanced versus Unbalanced Configurations

Transmission Medium

Asynchronous versus Synchronous Transmission

Clock and Data Recovery

Error Detection and Correction

Miscellaneous Serial Techniques

Serial to Parallel and Parallel to Serial Conversion

Gearbox Operations

Chapter Three. Selecting an Appropriate Interface

Section I: Low-Speed Interfaces ...

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