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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

An UART usually transmits 8-Bit data. The meaning of the data has to be defined by the application, it can use binary as well as ASCII formatted ("string") data. Typically, printf() and scanf() functions of a C compiler are used for ASCII encoding and decoding of data. Compiler user guides and programming language text books should answer all respective questions.