Peter Moreton wrote:
> hi, I'm working on a project that needs RS232 data with even parity -
> and having read the USART doc's, I couldn't see a way to get the USART
> hardware to generate the parity data, so I am presuming that the
> correct approach is to take each 7 bit ASCII character that I need to
> send, calculate what the 8th (parity) bit should be, and adjust the
> character I load into the USART accordingly.

Sounds right.  Upon receiving it's up to your code to check the parity of
the received byte, if you care.


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