Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
(you-art)
The main part of a serial port is called a Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART). This device on a chip takes the parallel information from the computer and translates it into serial data for the link. At the receiving end a UART will convert the serial data stream back into parallel data the peripheral or other computer can understand.
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