RIGOL MSO/DS1000Z Series - Manual (Page 169)

Chapter 8 Protocol Decoding RIGOL
MSO1000Z/DS1000Z User’s Guide 8-7
RS232 Decoding (Option)
RS232 serial bus consists of the transmitting data line (TX) and the receiving data
line (RX).
DeviceA DeviceB
Tx Rx
Rx Tx
Figure 8-3 RS232 Serial Bus Schematic Diagram
The industry standard of RS232 uses "Negative Logic", namely high level is logic "0"
and low level is logic "1".
1
0 0 0 0
1 1 1 1 1
Figure 8-4 Negative Logic Schematic Diagram
By default, RS232 uses LSB (Least Significant Bit) transmission sequence, namely
the lowest bit of the data is transmitted first. While for MSB (Most Significant Bit),
the highest bit of the data is transmitted first.
Bit
0
Bit
5
Bit
2
Bit
3
Bit
6
Bit
1
Bit
7
Bit
4
t
Bit
7
Bit
2
Bit
5
Bit
4
Bit
1
Bit
6
Bit
0
Bit
3
t
Endian (LSB) Endian (MSB））
In RS232, baud rate is used to represent the transmitting rate (namely bits per
second) of the data. The commonly used baud rates include 2400 bps, 4800 bps,
9600 bps, 19200 bps, 38400 bps, 57600 bps and 115200 bps.
In RS232, you need to set the start bit, data bits, check bit (optional) and stop bit of
each frame of data.
Start Bit
Data Bit
Check Bit
Stop Bit