What is the difference, if any, between a UART port and a serial port in a computer?
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A:
UART is the abbreviation of Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter, the name of the chip that enables the computer to communicate via a serial line (eg. RS-232, RS-485, RS-422).
The serial port is the RS-232 interface (internally connected to the UART) of the computer.
chrmue
2009-06-10 06:44:56
I think it is more correct to say, that UART is an implementation of the protocol, of type serial port.
SurDin
2009-06-10 06:48:48