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Asynchronous Serial Communication

Asynchronous serial communication involves transmitting data one bit at a time over a single wire without a shared clock signal. Instead, each character contains start and stop bits to synchronize the transmitter and receiver. Common configurations use 8 data bits, 1 start bit, 1 stop bit, and no parity (8N1). This allows asynchronous communication between devices like teletypewriters and modems for dial-up internet access.

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Asynchronous Serial Communication

Asynchronous serial communication involves transmitting data one bit at a time over a single wire without a shared clock signal. Instead, each character contains start and stop bits to synchronize the transmitter and receiver. Common configurations use 8 data bits, 1 start bit, 1 stop bit, and no parity (8N1). This allows asynchronous communication between devices like teletypewriters and modems for dial-up internet access.

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Asynchronous serial communication

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In this diagram, two bytes are sent, each consisting of a start bit, followed by eight data bits (bits 0-7), and one
stop bit, for a 10-bit character frame. The last data bit is sometimes used as a parity bit. The number of data
and formatting bits, the order of data bits, the presence or absence of a parity bit, the form of parity (even or
odd) and the transmission speed must be pre-agreed by the communicating parties. The "stop bit" is actually a
"stop period"; the stop period of the transmitter may be arbitrarily long. It cannot be shorter than a specified
amount, usually 1 to 2 bit times. The receiver requires a shorter stop period than the transmitter. At the end of
each character, the receiver stops briefly to wait for the next start bit. It is this difference which keeps the
transmitter and receiver synchronized.

Asynchronous serial communication is a form of serial communication in which the


communicating endpoints' interfaces are not continuously synchronized by a common clock signal.
Instead of a common synchronization signal, the data stream contains synchronization information in
form of start and stop signals, before and after each unit of transmission, respectively. The start
signal prepares the receiver for arrival of data and the stop signal resets its state to enable triggering
of a new sequence.
A common kind of start-stop transmission is ASCII over RS-232, for example for use
in teletypewriteroperation.

Contents
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 1 Origin
 2 Operation
 3 See also
 4 References
 5 Further reading
 6 External links

Origin[edit]
Mechanical teleprinters using 5-bit codes (see Baudot code) typically used a stop period of 1.5 bit
times.[1] Very early electromechanical teletypewriters (pre-1930) could demand 2 stop bits to allow
mechanical impression without buffering. [citation needed] Hardware which does not support fractional stop
bits can communicate with a device that uses 1.5 bit times if it is configured to send 2 stop bits when
transmitting and requiring 1 stop bit when receiving.
The format is derived directly from the design of the teletypewriter, which was designed this way
because the electromechanical technology of its day was not precise enough [citation
needed]
 forsynchronous operation: thus the systems needed to be re-synchronized at the start of each
character. Having been re-synchronized, the technology of the day was good enough to preserve
bit-sync for the remainder of the character. The stop bits gave the system time to recover before the
next start bit. Early teleprinter systems used five data bits, typically with some variant of the Baudot
code.
Very early experimental printing telegraph devices used only a start bit and required manual
adjustment of the receiver mechanism speed to reliably decode characters. Automatic
synchronization was required to keep the transmitting and receiving units "in step". This was finally
achieved by Howard Krum, who patented the start-stop method of synchronization (US 1199011,
granted September 19, 1916, then US 1286351, granted December 3, 1918). Shortly afterward a
practical teleprinter was patented (US 1232045, granted July 3, 1917).

Operation[edit]
Before signalling will work, the sender and receiver must agree on the signalling parameters:

 Full or half-duplex operation
 The number of bits per character
 Endianness: the order in which the bits are sent
 The speed or bits per second of the line (often incorrectly referred to as the Baud rate).
Some systems use automatic speed detection.
 Whether to use or not use parity
 Odd or even parity, if used
 The number of stop bits sent must be chosen (the number sent must be at least what the
receiver needs)
 Mark and space symbols (current directions in early telegraphy, later voltage polarities
in EIA RS-232 and so on, frequency shift polarities in frequency shift keying and so on)
Asynchronous start-stop signalling was widely used for dial-up modem access to time-
sharing computers and BBS systems. These systems used either seven or eight data bits.
Between computers, the most common configuration used was "8N1": eight bit characters, with one
start bit, one stop bit, and no parity bit. Thus 10 Baud times are used to send a single character,
which has the nice side-effect of dividing the signalling bit-rate by ten results in the overall
transmission speed in characters per second.
Asynchronous start-stop is the physical layer used to connect computers to modems for many dial-
up Internet access applications, using a data link framing protocol such as PPP to create packets
made up out of asynchronous serial characters. The performance loss relative to synchronous
access is negligible, as most modern modems will use a private synchronous protocol to send the
data between themselves, and the asynchronous links at each end are operated faster than this data
link, with flow control being used to throttle the data rate to prevent over

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