What is the difference between UART port and serial port in a computer?

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Renjith G picture Renjith G · Jun 10, 2009 · Viewed 17.2k times · Source

What is the difference, if any, between a UART port and a serial port in a computer?

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chrmue picture chrmue · Jun 10, 2009

UART is the abbreviation of Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter, the name of the chip that enables the computer to communicate via a serial line (eg. RS-232, RS-485, RS-422).

The serial port is the RS-232 interface (internally connected to the UART) of the computer.

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