Clarifying documentation in USART chapter. #565
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This is a small change.
I was running into issues with serial comms not coming back from my microcontroller, despite verifying that OpenOCD, itmdump, minicom/PuTTY were working correctly, and the actual pin selection was correct for my board revision.
It turns out I had misinterpreted this line in 11-usart/README.md:
I understood this as a continuation of 10-serial-communication/loopbacks.md, where I had just shorted the PC4 and PC5 pins. I thought "already wired" meant that the PC4-PC5 wire was necessary. This loopback, of course, ends up breaking the Virtual COM Port.
I've added a couple additional lines to ensure others don't run into this same issue, by clarifying the need to remove the wires that were just added.
This could alternatively be updated in loopbacks.md, by introducing a line such as: