How does a UART do it...

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From: Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 11:43

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Given a stream of 1s & 0s, how does a UART get the character framing
established, i.e. how is the 'start' bit differentiated from all the
others? (I want to emulate one in software)

Steve

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