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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Better UARTs?
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:51:42 +0100
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- davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:
-
- > It seems that in addition to a 64 byte FIFO (no surprise) it will do
- > the hardware handshake for you! Now the slowest system around will
- > not lose data because the UART will drop RTS when the FIFO is almost
- > full, and will stop sending if the CTS drops. This is where the
- > logic should have been all along,
-
- Actually, TI has had out a 16550C implementing Auto-CTS and Auto-RTR/CTS
- for quite some time. (I've been mentioning the '550C and '750 in this
- group ever since I got the respective spec sheets.)
-
- > Any experience with these?
-
- Unfortunately I haven't gotten around to digging one up.
-
- > The larger buffer is nice, but the flow control changes the whole
- > dynamics of how UARTs are handled.
-
- In Auto-RTR/CTS mode, whenever the FIFO fills up to its IRQ trigger
- threshold the chip takes RTR low. Supposedly there are modems out there
- that can't handle this rate of flow control change (seems they've got
- their RTR input wired to an interrupt line and can't handle that many
- IRQs). I haven't heard anything specific, though.
-
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