[sdiy] Serial Ports

[Tom Arnold]

So, this is synth related ( midi )

How does serial get in sync?
So I'm reinventing the wheel on something, writing my own bit banging
routines for the fun of it.  And now I'm curious, I mean  start
bit/data/stop bit is fine and all, but what happens if you come in in the
middle of a conversation?  How do you sync, or do you not?  Or do you just
hope you have a moment of silence longer then 10 bits so you can go "Hey,
I'm between bytes!" ?

I could just cheat and grab one of the few million software uarts on the
net, but this sounded like fun...

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