4.29.5 Selecting the serial parity checking scheme

The ‘Parity’ box allows you to choose what type of parity checking is used on the serial line. The settings are:

• ‘None’: no parity bit is sent at all.
• ‘Odd’: an extra parity bit is sent alongside each byte, and arranged so that the total number of 1 bits is odd.
• ‘Even’: an extra parity bit is sent alongside each byte, and arranged so that the total number of 1 bits is even.
• ‘Mark’: an extra parity bit is sent alongside each byte, and always set to 1.
• ‘Space’: an extra parity bit is sent alongside each byte, and always set to 0.