Global Standards for the Microelectronics Industry
universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART)
A circuit used in asynchronous data communication applications to provide all the necessary logic to recover data in a serial-in, parallel-out fashion and to transmit data in a parallel-in, serial-out fashion.
NOTE This circuit is usually full-duplex (i.e., it can transmit and receive simultaneously) with the option to handle various data word lengths.
References:
JESD100-B, 12/99
