What is Baud rate?

The number of symbols sent per second in serial communication; for a UART it equals bits per second and must match on both sides.

Field: Embedded Systems & Firmware

Baud rate in the explanations

The receiver aligns its timing at the start of the start bit and then counts at its own baud rate, sampling each bit at its center.
A small baud-rate mismatch between UART transmitter and rec…

Questions that mention Baud rate (1)

A small baud-rate mismatch between UART transmitter and receiver can garble characters. Why is the tolerance limited to roughly a few percent?

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