Re: Slightly unmatched UART frequencies

Hal Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You bright up a good subject, and you're absolutely correct that if you
>> continuously send data from one serial port at 9600.01bps to a receiver
>> at 9600, sooner or later there must be a buffer overflow. ...
>
> I think you are missing a key idea.  The receiver has to make
> sure that it will tolerate early start bits.  That is the receiver
> has to start looking for a new start-of-start-bit right after
> it has checked the middle of the stop bit rather than wait unitl
> the end of the stop bit to start looking.

Unless your (slightly slower) transmitter also has the capability of
producing shortened start (or stop) bits, how those this approach 'fix' the
problem?  If the date rates are, say, 9601 received BPS and 9600 transmitted
BPS, detecting early start bits just buys you one extra bit interval before
your overrun your buffers, doesn't it?

---Joel