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 ...

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 ...

Since the introduction of the USB protocol, you don't see many serial devices anymore. For that reason, most manufacturers no longer include a serial port on desktop or laptop computers. Therefore, if ...

We are now going to examine how to access your computer's serial ports. In order to do this, we need some sort of serial device to talk to. A serial port loopback plug is probably the simplest. These ...

With Linux and the serial port there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Linux has great support for serial hardware of all sorts and a host of tools for accessing the serial ...

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 ...

Devices can be character devices (like keyboards and serial ports), block devices (such as hard disks and USB devices), network devices and virtual devices. On Linux systems, devices are represented ...

At some point in the past, Unix — the progenitor of Linux — treated virtually everything as a file, and all files were created more or less equal. Programs didn’t care if a file was local, on the ...

Without some good means of input and output, a computer makes a pretty good doorstop or boat anchor. Once we start plugging things into a computer, however, it can receive data and instructions, ...

How to secure the boot process. How Lattice Sentry protects serial memory-based solutions. Where Mach-NX fits into the solution. A hardware root of trust (HRoT) is the basis for most secure computer ...

A shared channel that transmits data one bit after the other over a single wire or fiber; for example, Ethernet uses a serial bus architecture. The I/O bus from the CPU to the peripherals is a ...

Before 2000, desktop printers for business had one of two interfaces: serial and parallel. The type of interface dictated the type of cable you used to connect the printer to the PC and how fast the ...