Explain the term UART and its uses

Question

Explain the term UART and its uses.

Answer 1

UART stands for Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter.

• It is a hardware component for translating the data in between parallel and serial interfaces.
• It does convert bytes of data to and by asynchronous start stop bit.
• It is normally utilized in MODEM.

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter consists of:

A clock generator, Input and Output start Registers, Buffers and Transmitter/Receiver control.