Microcontroller with many UARTS

Tue Dec 16 03:24:13 UTC 2003

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:42:20AM +0800, Ian Caddy wrote:
> Your other option is to connect to something like an Octal UART which
> provides 8 serial ports.  There is no reason that you couldn't connect
> to multiple of them as long as you had the processing power to service
> that many devices.

you could also use SPI to RS232 UART convertors, like maxim MAX3110,
depending on required bandwidth.

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