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Description
Aserialportisaserialcommunicationinterface
thatisstillverycommonbetweenmaritime
systems.Itisveryimportantthatanyserialline
betweentheES80andanyexternalsystemis
setupcorrectlywithidenticalparametersateach
end.TheNMEA(NationalMarineElectronics
Association)standardforserialcommunication
denesstandardparametersforsuchinterfaces.
Accordingtotheirwebsite,theNationalMarine
ElectronicsAssociation(NMEA)is"theunifying
forcebehindtheentiremarineelectronicsindustry,bringingtogetherallaspectsof
theindustryforthebettermentofallinourbusiness".Formoreinformation,see:
http://www.nmea.org
Details
COMPort
ThistextboxidentiesthecurrentcommunicationportontheProcessorUnit.
Youcannotchangethisinformation.
Name
Thisisatextbox.Typeasuitablenameforthecommunicationport.Ifyoudonot
haveacomputerkeyboardconnectedtoyourProcessorUnit,selecttheKeyboard
buttontoopenanon-screenkeyboard.
BaudRate
Usethissettingtospecifythebaudrate("speed")fortheserialcommunication.
ThestandardbaudratedenedforNMEAseriallinecommunicationis4800baud.
Indigitalcommunications,symbolrate,alsoknownasbaudrateand
modulationrate,isthenumberofsymbolchanges,waveformchanges,or
signallingevents,acrossthetransmissionmediumpertimeunitusinga
digitallymodulatedsignaloralinecode.Thesymbolrateismeasuredin
baud(Bd)orsymbolspersecond.Inthecaseofalinecode,thesymbolrate
isthepulserateinpulsespersecond.Eachsymbolcanrepresentorconvey
oneorseveralbitsofdata.Thesymbolrateisrelatedtothegrossbitrate
expressedinbitspersecond.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_rate
DataBits
Usethisfunctiontospecifythenumberofdatabitsforserialcommunication.
ThestandardnumberofdatabitsdenedforNMEAseriallinecommunicationis
8(eight).
Functionsanddialogboxes