Moxa's NPort serial device server and MGate Ethernet gateway Launching an Internet of Things or Industry 4.0 initiative is pretty straightforward with new equipment designed for such applications. But ...

You probably remember serial ports as the ancient nine-pin plugs you once used to hook up your mouse or joystick to your computer in the pre-USB dark ages. But tracking down devices that still use ...

Not knowing what’s going on inside of your electronics projects can make it quite difficult to get the bugs out. [John] was bumping up against this problem when working on wireless communications ...

The circuit shown can be used to interface multiple serial devices to the I2C bus, even if they lack the extended-addressing capability required. Information transfer be-tween I2C devices connected to ...

Exar has announced a new family of USB to serial bridge devices for industrial applications. The XR21B142x family interfaces with RS-232 or RS-485 serial networks. The XR21B1420, XRB21B1422, and ...

Sending and receiving data over a given distance has grown from a passion in humans to a necessity. In 1810, a German man created a system for sending encoded messages via air bubbles. He crafted a ...

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...

This application note explains the use of MSSP module to interface SPI™ serial EEPROMs with PIC18 devices. This document include the firmware description, initialization, write enable, read status ...

One of the advantages of Microchipís PICÆ microcontrollers with self-programmable enhanced Flash memory is the ability to implement a bootloader. This allows designers to implement applications that ...

Chances are you haven't spent much time thinking about your Apple device's serial number. Whether you own the benchmark Apple Watch Series 9 or a budget-priced refurbished iPhone, your device's serial ...