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Aparitybit,orcheckbitisabitaddedtotheendofastringofbinarycodethat
indicateswhetherthenumberofbitsinthestringwiththevalueoneiseven
orodd.Paritybitsareusedasthesimplestformoferrordetectingcode.[...]
Inserialdatatransmission,acommonformatis7databits,anevenparitybit,
andoneortwostopbits.Thisformatneatlyaccommodatesallthe7-bitASCII
charactersinaconvenient8-bitbyte.Otherformatsarepossible;8bitsofdata
plusaparitybitcanconveyall8-bitbytevalues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_bit
Handshake
Whenyousetupaseriallinetoanexternaldevice,thehandshakewillhelpyouto
controltheowofdata.Thehandshakeallowstheexternaldevicetostopsending
dataiftheProcessorUnitisnotreadyforit.ItalsopreventstheProcessorUnitfrom
sendingdatawhentheexternaldeviceisnotreadyforit.
Ininformationtechnology,andrelatedelds,handshakingisanautomated
processofnegotiationthatdynamicallysetsparametersofacommunications
channelestablishedbetweentwoentitiesbeforenormalcommunicationover
thechannelbegins.Itfollowsthephysicalestablishmentofthechanneland
precedesnormalinformationtransfer.Thehandshakingprocessusuallytakes
placeinordertoestablishrulesforcommunicationwhenacomputersetsabout
communicatingwithaforeigndevice.Whenacomputercommunicateswith
anotherdevicelikeamodem,printer,ornetworkserver,itneedstohandshake
withittoestablishaconnection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshaking(September2016)
Device
Showsthecurrentdeviceyouaresettingup.
OutputData
SelectthisoptionifyouwanttoforwardthereceiveddatatoadifferentCOMPort.
SelectCOM
Selectanavailableportfromthelist.
Note
ThisoptionisonlyavailableifyouhaveselectedOutputData.
Functionsanddialogboxes