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03/10/08 08:18
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#152059 - Soft-UART ?
Responding to: ???'s previous message
The printer and LCD do not send any data back to the CPU.

In that case, you could try a soft UART-approach. UART TX is fairly simple to do in software - RX would be a lot more complex.

Whether this is feasible depends on your system (available CPU time, etc).

If a printer or LCD sees garbage would it try to print or display that garbage or would it simply ignore it because of the baud rate error?

A UART cannot detect a baud rate error. It can detect some other errors (parity, framing). Whether the LCD would print garbage or ignore the byte would depend on whether one of these other errors occur. If you send just the right (wrong) stuff to the high baudrate device, the low baudrate device might consider it a valid transmission and start displaying garbage.

List of 32 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
One RS232 port and two devices            01/01/70 00:00      
   Almost certainly not!            01/01/70 00:00      
      neither one talks back            01/01/70 00:00      
         Soft-UART ?            01/01/70 00:00      
         Simplex            01/01/70 00:00      
            responses            01/01/70 00:00      
               The beaty of the 8051            01/01/70 00:00      
                  why all this about bit-banging            01/01/70 00:00      
               Bit banging UART TX.            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Easy to get wrong.            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Point taken, but you can calculate delay.            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Depends on compiler/etc...            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Don't use HLL!            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Cycle counting.            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 Fundamental flaw            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Not an Absolute....            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 RE: Never is a strong word            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    ... and            01/01/70 00:00      
                              assembly verses HLL            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Use a Timer IRQ to set the soft baudrate            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Surprise.            01/01/70 00:00      
                                 High risk            01/01/70 00:00      
                                    Straying into fantasy.            01/01/70 00:00      
                                       Not so fantastic?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Resistance is too high            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Another reason why this is not so easy...            01/01/70 00:00      
               Timescales            01/01/70 00:00      
      message formatting            01/01/70 00:00      
         Try it now            01/01/70 00:00      
            It's OK now, thanks.            01/01/70 00:00      
   Two RS232 devices            01/01/70 00:00      
      the LCD display            01/01/70 00:00      

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