Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) is aiming to ease the integration of the USB into existing electronic systems, with the release of the FT4232H USB serial/hub module. It has been ...

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 ...

The operation and description of the UART serial interface through USB is discussed in this application note. In addition, the firmware application code in C language, containing communication ...

Middleboro, Mass.—Universal Serial Bus continues its ascendancy for many moderate-speed measurement and data acquisition applications, especially those where plug-and-play in a PC environment is ...

Hardware hackers building interactive gadgets based on the Arduino microcontrollers are finding that a recent driver update that Microsoft deployed over Windows Update has bricked some of their ...

A bootloader makes it possible to update a product’s firmware in the field. Common communication interfaces like UART, I 2 C, SPI or USB can be used to update the firmware, which typically involves a ...