UART

How does the UART know that the device connected to it is ready to
receive data?

"lee" <leela2403@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> How does the UART know that the device connected to it is ready to
> receive data?

When does our assignement have to be handed in?

Deep. 

Hi Lee,

lee wrote:

> How does the UART know that the device connected to it is ready to
> receive data?

It does not know anything about the connected device. The driver may
look at the handshake lines (DTR, RTS, CTS...) but thats not part of
the UART.

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"lee" <leela2403@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> How does the UART know that the device connected to it is ready to
> receive data?
>

UART on what?

It doesn't.

Kurt Harders wrote:

> > How does the UART know that the device connected to it is ready to
> > receive data?
>
> It does not know anything about the connected device. The driver may
> look at the handshake lines (DTR, RTS, CTS...) but thats not part of
> the UART.

A lot of the time those handshaking signals run across the same chip
where the UART function is found.  But it's true that simple UART need
not pay attention to them - they would merely show up in registers the
host CPU could access.

With buffered UARTs though, the buffering will not do much good in a
handshaked application unless the control circuit for the buffers
monitors and drives the handshaking signals.  You could of course argue
that a buffered UART is simply a dumb UART surrounded by a buffer and
it's controller, and argue that the buffer and it's controller are
merely part of a driver transformed into hardware.

On 2006-04-27, Kurt Harders <news@kurt-harders.de> wrote:

>> How does the UART know that the device connected to it is
>> ready to receive data?

It depends on the UART.  Some don't know anything.  Some watch
the handshake lines.   Some watch for xon/xoff characters.

> It does not know anything about the connected device. The
> driver may look at the handshake lines (DTR, RTS, CTS...) but
> thats not part of the UART.

That depends on the UART.  The better UARTs do indeed look at
CTS and/or DSR, and some even monitor the receive datastream
for xon/xoff characters.

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On 27 Apr 2006 10:01:10 -0700, "lee" <leela2403@gmail.com> wrote:

>How does the UART know that the device connected to it is ready to
>receive data?

How about reading manuals ?

Think before ask, today: Think, Google, ask ;-)

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