Re: Serial port latency

Paul Fulghum
2001-03-22T20:56:59Z

> The serial port chip is 16550A, which has a built in fifo. Can this be
> the source of my problems ?
>
> Geir

I thought about that. If the number of receive bytes in the RX FIFO
is less that the trigger level then a timeout has to occur before
getting the next receive data interrupt.

The 16550AF data book says that this timeout is 4 characters
from when the last byte is received. This is a maximum of 160ms
at 300bps (when using 12bit characters: 1 start + 8 data + parity + 2 stop).

So this would be smaller at 9600 and could not account
for the 500ms delay.

Paul Fulghum paulkf@microgate.com
Microgate Corporation www.microgate.com