DATAMAN S4 MANUAL
<$IBaud Rate;Discussion>Baud Rates
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<$IBaud Rate;Discussion>Baud
Rates
The baud-rate of a transmission is the reciprocal of
the time used
to send one bit. Asynchronous serial transmissions
as commonly used
by computers have extra bits to frame and check
the data: a START
bit, then the DATA bits, then an optional PARITY
bit and then one
or more STOP bits. Baud-rate indicates the
<MI>fastest<D> possible
transmission speed: it does not indicate the
<MI>actual<D> transmission
speed. You can send one byte per fortnight at any
baud-rate. When
a computer has reached its limiting speed for
processing the data,
increasing the baud-rate will not make it send or
receive any faster - the
gaps between characters will just get bigger. Some
systems claim high
baud rates but they are slow at receiving data files
all the same.
To prevent the sending device supplying data
faster than the receiving
device can digest it, the receiver prompts with a
signal RTS (Request-To-Send),
and/or DSR (Data-Set-Ready). These signals are
called handshaking.
Leads used for serial communications must
connect the handshaking