If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

For applications that require PC communication with numerous serial-port devices, the USBS Series will fit the bill. These bus converters let you add from 1 to 16 serial ports from one USB port. The ...

A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...

[Johan von Konow] found that he was using an FTDI USB-to-Serial chip in a lot of his projects and wanted to have an easy prototyping component on hand to facilitate this. What he came up with is the ...

Some software and specialty hardware requires you to use a traditional serial port. Serial ports have been around for decades and work by transferring one bit of data at a time at a relatively slow ...

You may have heard of USB OTG as a feature on several Android phones. Here's what it means and how you can take advantage of ...

What's a good brand to go with? I know there are some that are queer and use special drivers - i'm looking for something that I can just plug in and it will show up to XP like any other COM port, so I ...

Some businesses require serial numbers for all USB devices attached to their network. The Window Device Manager console displays a list of all your USB peripherals and provides you with detailed ...