I have a bunch of serial devices that I need to communicate with. Some of them are connected to native serial ports, and some have USB->RS232 adapters. I am communicating to them via the serial port ...

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

If you are a software and hardware developer working with serial ports, you often need a reliable serial port monitor that allows you to capture, display, analyze, record, and replay all serial port ...

I'm a bit out of my league on this one. I need to take realtime data from a serial source and display it in a "retail display" type of fashion. My PLC sends data out via RS232 (I also have RF485 \ ...

In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic analyzer. Today, you can get cheap logic ...

The simulation of a serial port in software in order to allow USB, Ethernet or some other input/output port to take its place. Virtual serial ports are necessary to enable an application that was ...

A PC’s serial port provides signal lines that you can use to read voltage levels of digital circuits. You can use the port to test digital TTL (transistor-to-transistor-logic)-level circuits. You just ...

I know, RS-232 is not gone completely but in most things it has disappeared. Recently I bought a new laptop to use in my ham shack. I have several older accessories that use RS-232 and I had hoped to ...

When did you last buy a mouse? Did it have a little adapter in the box? There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also an adapter to allow it to be used with the older PS/2 ...