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Description
Serialportsarestillaverycommonmethodforinterface
betweenmaritimesystems.Itisveryimportantthatany
seriallinebetweentheTV80andanyexternalsystem
issetupcorrectlywithidenticalparametersateachend.
TheNMEA(NationalMarineElectronicsAssociation)
standardforserialcommunicationdenesstandard
parametersforsuchinterfaces.
Accordingtotheirwebsite,theNationalMarine
ElectronicsAssociation(NMEA)is"theunifyingforce
behindtheentiremarineelectronicsindustry,bringing
togetherallaspectsoftheindustryforthebettermentofall
inourbusiness".Formoreinformation,see:http://www.nmea.org
Details
COMPort
ThistextboxidentiesthecurrentcommunicationportontheProcessorUnit.You
cannotchangethisinformation.
Name
Thisisatextbox.Typeasuitablenameforthecommunicationport.
Baudrate
Usethissettingtospecifythebaudrate("speed")fortheserialcommunication.The
standardbaudratedenedforNMEAseriallinecommunicationis4800baud.
Indigitalcommunications,symbolrate,alsoknownasbaudrateandmodulation
rate,isthenumberofsymbolchanges,waveformchanges,orsignalingevents,
acrossthetransmissionmediumpertimeunitusingadigitallymodulatedsignal
oralinecode.Thesymbolrateismeasuredinbaud(Bd)orsymbolspersecond.
Inthecaseofalinecode,thesymbolrateisthepulserateinpulsespersecond.
Eachsymbolcanrepresentorconveyoneorseveralbitsofdata.Thesymbolrate
isrelatedtothegrossbitrateexpressedinbitspersecond.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_rate
Databits
Usethisfunctiontospecifythenumberofdatabitsfortheserialcommunication.The
standardnumberofdatabitsdenedforNMEAseriallinecommunicationis8(eight).
Parity
Usethisfunctiontospecifytheparityfortheserialcommunication.Thestandard
paritydenedforNMEAseriallinecommunicationis"None".
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