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Date:      Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:35:00 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: max UART speed? 
Message-ID:  <408.1167773700@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:40:44 GMT." <200701022040.UAA03200@sopwith.solgatos.com> 

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In message <200701022040.UAA03200@sopwith.solgatos.com>, Dieter writes:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UART
>
>lists UART speeds up to 2,764,800 bits/second.
>
>Does it take a special magic UART to do this?
>
>termios.h only goes up to 921,600

There is no theoretical upper limit, only signal integrity problems.

Regular chips can only go to 115200 because of the input clock
frequency they have to work with.

If you run them on 8x normal clock, you get 921600, 2764800 is
24x normal clock.

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