02363: numanath: Fails the UART test, as confirmed in the original.

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
02363	Known Issues/To-Do's	Trivial	Have not tried	Feb 5, 1997, 00:00	Jun 3, 2009, 16:34

Tester	-MAME Source-	View Status	Public	Platform
Assigned To		Resolution	Bugs That Aren't Bugs	OS
Status [?]	Resolved			Driver	namco/namcona1.cpp
Version	N/A	Fixed in Version		Build
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	02363: numanath: Fails the UART test, as confirmed in the original.
Description	It's been confirmed that a Numan Athletics fails the UART test behaving as it does in MAME.
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Flags	Verified with Original, Noted in Source
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Affected Sets / Systems	numanath

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No.03005 Kale Developer Nov 7, 2008, 18:58 edited on: Nov 7, 2008, 20:01	UART is the standard name for the RS-232 serial port present on a PC.Actually,I don't know if there's a RS-232 on the Numan Athletics PCB,and in my humble opinion if there is the test should be done by connecting two PCBs with the respective cable or by doing a "loopback" test with one PCB.
No.04446 NekoEd Senior Tester Jun 3, 2009, 16:34	RS-232 is the standard, and the UART is the chip that is commonly used in PCs and such as an easy way to implement the hardware side of serial communications. It has the clock generation, data TX/RX and on better models, a small FIFO buffer. In short, it's a device that implements the RS-232 standard in hardware for easy use by software.