Learn what a USB to Serial adapter is used for, when you might need one, and whether installing a driver is required for it ...

SANTA ANA, CA--(Marketwired - June 23, 2016) - Silex Technology America, Inc., a global leader in wired and wireless networking solutions, today introduced its newest USB and Serial device servers, ...

MicroPython is a wonderful Python interpreter that runs on many higher-end microcontrollers, from ESP8266 to STM32 to the RP2040. MicroPython lets you build devices quickly, and its latest release, ...

Exar has announced a new family of USB to serial bridge devices for industrial applications. The XR21B142x family interfaces with RS-232 or RS-485 serial networks. The XR21B1420, XRB21B1422, and ...

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 ...

San Jose, Calif. – Manufacturers of IEEE-1394 and Universal Serial Bus chips for computer and consumer electronics device connectivity are jockeying for position in their respective markets as updated ...

Never mind the iPad’s lack of USB and SDcard slots, how about a serial port? Our younger readers are now probably going like, “a serial what?”, but those of you that have been around for a while sure ...

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 ...

It survives reboots, updates, and years of inactivity — Windows never cleans it up.

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 ...