ASYNCHRONOUS

Communications Systems Glossary

Communications Systems — Asynchronous

Information on Asynchronous

Asynchronous transmission occurs without significant prior coordination between the source and the sink. Each block of data is sent by the source, which receives warning of each block by a start bit and notification of the end of the block with a stop bit (also known therefore as start-stop protocol).

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