Parity, Parity -11 – Symbol Technologies DS 3408 User Manual

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RS-232 Interface

7-11

Parity

A parity check bit is the most significant bit of each ASCII coded character. Select the parity type according to host device
requirements.

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Select Odd parity and the parity bit value is set to 0 or 1, based on data, to ensure that an odd number of 1 bits are contained
in the coded character.

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Select Even parity and the parity bit value is set to 0 or 1, based on data, to ensure that an even number of 1 bits are
contained in the coded character.

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Select Mark parity and the parity bit is always 1.

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Select Space parity and the parity bit is always 0.

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Select None when no parity bit is required.

Odd

Even

Mark

Space

*

None

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