The transmission of information between computers or between computers and peripheral devices one bit at a time over a single line. Serial communications can be synchronous (controlled by some time standard such as a clock) or asynchronous (managed by the exchange of control signals that govern the flow of information). An important aspect of serial communications – and a potential source of difficulty – is that both sender and receiver must use the same baud rate, parity, and control information.
use of one path to transmit bits of data.
Wired communication, normally low-speed, from a microcontroller or microprocessor e.g. RS232, RS422.
Communications between a host PC and an attached device where the data is transferred one bit at a time. See RS-232.
Digital transmissions in which information is transferred one bit at a time over a single wire or channel. In synchronous communications, blocks or packets of bits contain data are sent according to an established timing sequence. Serial lines are commonly use to connect peripheral devises to computer networks.
With serial communications, data is transmitted one bit at a time over a single line from one computer to another. Often serial communications link hosts to terminals and PCs to printers.
Communications over a single wire, where only one bit is transmitted at a time. In the past this has typically meant a communication line to a printing device, such as a terminal or printer, with the expectation that the characters are all printable or printer/display characters. Today, however, a serial communication does not guarantee use of only printable characters.
In telecommunications and computer science, serial communications is the process of sending data one bit at one time, sequentially, over a communications channel or computer bus. This is in contrast to parallel communications, where all the bits of each symbol are sent together. Serial communications is used for all long-haul communications and most computer networks, where the cost of cable and synchronization difficulties make parallel communications impractical.
