15 Aug
2005
15 Aug
'05
11:35 a.m.
On Monday 15 August 2005 13:27, Jim Leonard wrote:
Can someone clarify what "bit-banger" means
and why it was different
from a contemporary serial interface card?
Bit-banger refers to in essence, a software UART... you turn on/off the
serial port line directly via software, with the appropriate timing, as
opposed to using a hardware UART to do the serial<->parallel
conversion.
Pat
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