It’s the easiest thing in the world — simple, straightforward serial data. It’s the fallback communication protocol for nearly every embedded system out there, and so it’s one that you really want to ...

While most of you reading this have broadband in your home, there are still vast areas with little access to the Internet. Ham radio operator [emmynet] found himself in just such a situation recently, ...

Today, Serial devices continue to be used around the world as an essential component of many industries’ applications, such as, process control measurement, production tracking, and data collection.

Chandler, Ariz.—Microchip Technology Inc. has expanded its serial peripheral interface (SPI) serial EEPROM line with a pair of 256-Kbit devices that can achieve speeds of up to 10-MHz. The 25AA256 is ...

USB to serial converters only work most of the time. There is at least one very expensive solution which is said to work good with laptops. There is or was a KVM like solution for serial lines from HP ...

Schneider Electric has released a Modbus Communication DTM that supports FDT2 while providing connectivity to Modbus devices over serial lines or TCP. Backward compatibility of FDT2 makes the DTM ...

I had a thread over in the Programmer's Symposium, but I think the line of questioning has turned more into a kernel issue.<br><br>I have been tasked with getting response time for writing a single ...