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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

UART and RS232

hi. Is UART have to be used with RS232 only or vice versa? I am using hyper terminal to test the communication. The data received is in weird symbol before changing to ascii code. Actually ...
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17 years ago

The UART is converting from parallel to seriell und vice vera by controling the transmission, but no interpretation of the information that is transmitted or received if we forget the break condition for a moment.

the interpretation is done in software.