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Serial bus, Serial bus overview – GW Instek GDS-3000 Series User Manual User Manual

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Serial Bus

The serial bus trigger and decode software includes support for 3
common serial interfaces, SPI (4 channel models only), UART and
I

2

C. Each interface is fully configurable to accommodate a wide

range of protocol variation.
Each input can be displayed as binary or hexadecimal. An event
table can also be created to aid in debugging.
Note that the Serial bus trigger and decode software is an optional
extra. An activation key is required to activate the software, for
details please see page 192. Please see the Serial Bus Decode
manual for more details on using the serial bus software.

Serial Bus Overview

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter.
The UART bus is able to accommodate a wide
range of various common UART serial
communications.
The UART serial bus software is suitable for a
number of RS-232 protocol variants.

Inputs

Tx, Rx

Threshold

Tx, Rx

Configuration

Baud rate, Parity, Packets, End of
packets, Input polarity

Trigger On

Tx Start Bit, Rx Start Bit, Tx End of
Packet, Rx End of Packet, Tx Data,
Rx Data, Tx Parity Error, Rx Parity
Error

I

2

C

Inter Integrated Circuit is a two line serial data
interface with a serial data line (SDA) and serial
clock line (SCLK). The R/W bit can be configured.

Inputs

SCLK, SDA