Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Computer Studies Made Simple : Synchronous and Asynchronous Data Transmission

Synchronous and Asynchronous Data Transmission

Asynchronous Data Transmission:

In this method,data is transmitted character by character

There are irregular gaps between characters in this transmission.

It uses a special start signal that is transmitted at the beginning of each message.

The start signal is sent when the character is about to be transmitted.

A start bit has a value of zero and is called a space start.

The value of zero means that a character is about to be transferred.

It alerts the receiver and it gets ready to receive the character.

If start bit has a value 1,it indicates that the line is idle.

It is also called a mark state.

Synchronous Transmission:



In this method ,the data is transferred block by block.

Each block may consist of many characters.

A large amount of information canbe transmitted with this type of transmission.

Synchronous transmission is much faster than asynchronous transmission because there is no gap 
between the characters.


This transmission is suitable for remote communication between a computer and related devices like a printer.


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