The High–Speed Micro’s serial interfaces are functionally identical to those found on other lower performance 8051 processors. They are based on a Universal Synchronous/ Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (USART) implementation. As the name implies, a USART converts parallel data to and from a synchronous or asynchronous serial bit stream. The parallel data side of the device interfaces with the processor’s internal data bus, and the serial side interfaces with the outside world. This application note describes the setup and operation of the most commonly encountered operating modes of this interface.