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20 years ago

UART Control

Good morning everybody, I need to find out if it is possible to independantly switch the transmitter or receiver on / off. The reason for this is that I have the TX and RX lines connected throu...
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20 years ago

Hi Tyrone,

> if the receiver is on while trying to transmit, things don't work so well

You can just gate the rxd line while transmitting -- use a PIO to control the gate.

Regards,

--Scott