August 2008
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
6h 2m
English
• USART asynchronous link
• SPI synchronous bus
• I2C synchronous bus
Serial data connections are useful because only one or two signal wires are needed, compared with at least eight data lines for a parallel bus plus control signals. The typical PIC microcontroller offers a choice of serial interfaces. The best one for any given communication channel depends on the distance between nodes, the speed, and the number of hardware connections required.
The universal synchronous/asynchronous receive transmit (USART) device is typically used in asynchronous mode to implement off-board, one-to-one connections. The term asynchronous means no separate clock signal is needed to time the data reception, so only a data send, ...
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