Types of Conversions Cont

•     Serial Transmission o    One  bit  follows  another,  so  we  need  only  one  channel  rather  than  'n'  to transmit data between two devices o    Conversion devices are required at the interface   Advantage -COST ™   Types of Serial Transmission ŠThere are two types of Serial Transmission: -Asychronous Transmission -Synchronous Transmission Asynchronous Transmission ŠAdvantages -Cheap -Effective ŠDisadvantages -Slow Synchronous Transmission ŠData is transmitted as an unbroken string of 1's and 0's and the receiver separates that string into the bytes or characters it need to reconstruct the information