Designing an application with universal serial bus (USB) communications enables a system to be able to communicate with a wide variety of USB host devices and provides a convenient power option ...

Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany: Using the recent Embedded World show as its platform, Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) launched the FT232H USB2.0 Hi-Speed device. The single-channel ...

The XR22804 USB 2.0 to 10/100 Ethernet bridge IC offers a high level of integration, combining a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 hub with controllers for 10/100 Ethernet, I 2 C, 32 GPIO, and four enhanced UARTs. The ...

If you haven’t been paying attention, FTDI, makers of one of the most popular USB to UART chips out there, really screwed up last October. They released a driver to Microsoft that would brick ...

Gowin GoBridge is a family of bridging chips that convert a USB interface to different serial and parallel busses. “The GWU2X family enables conversion between USB and four peripheral interfaces: JTAG ...

To say that the RTL-SDR project was revolutionary might be something of an understatement. Taking a cheap little USB gadget and using it as a Software Defined Radio (SDR) to explore the radio spectrum ...

In a recent post we interfaced a small DMX RGB LED Par Light with an Arduino Uno through a MAX485 module. In this post we will learn how to work with a compact USB to RS-485 Converter Module. This ...

In the last two installments of Driving Me Nuts [LJ August 2002 and October 2002], we covered the tty layer, explaining how to create a minimal tty driver. We also explained some of the various ioctls ...

i'm trying to buy a USB to RS-232 adapter for use with my M1 Mac Mini, but this is turning out to be a lot more complicated than i thought it would be. the most common devices seem to be based on ...