Synchronous data transfer

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With synchronous data transmission , the transmission of individual bits between the transmitter and receiver is time-synchronized with a clock signal . This clock signal can be sent via its own interface line or can be recovered from the data signal by the receiver. One then speaks of " clock recovery ".

A synchronous transmission of signals exists when there is a rigid phase relationship between them over several symbol characters. A necessary condition for this is that the same clock frequencies must exist between the transmitter and receiver.

The counterpart is asynchronous data transmission , in which pauses of any length (or randomly long) can occur between individual groups of symbols, which means that there is no longer a rigid phase relationship.

Demarcation

Synchronous data transmission should not be confused with the term synchronous communication , which refers to the sequence of request and response in a transmission protocol .

literature

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