More about serial (115)

1-07-2010 | Two years ago, I presented here the USB/TTL serial conversion cables from FTDI — wonderful communication and debugging tools. The increasing...

1-07-2009 | All of the latest Apple computers come without an RS232 port However RS232 is still considered very useful by many electronics-minded people...

1-06-2008 | Many ‘legacy’ peripherals, microcontroller projects and older boards are left abandoned because they have no USB connectivity and therefore...

1-07-2007 | The Propeller prototyping board described elsewhere in this issue needs a programming interface, just like the board available from Parallax...

1-06-2007 | A multimeter is the standard measurement tool for every electronics hobbyist. You can use them to measure voltages, currents and resistances...

1-07-2006 | When computer makers switched from RS232 to USB, one of the collateral benefits was TTL compatibility with regard to the supply voltage as w...

1-04-2006 | Synchronous serial data transfer between a microcontroller and peripheral devices has become more fashionable in recent years especially sin...

1-03-2005 | The right crystal controlled frequency at the right time: With this DIP outline oscillator there’s no need to wait for a special crystal to...

1-10-2003 | The programmer described here reads and writes to the Xilinx family of serial PROMs. The PC software is written in Turbo Pascal and the prog...

1-07-2003 | It is sometimes necessary to install microcontrollers quite far away from data processing systems, such as in temperature measurement system...