Modern USB devices are secretly still using this 40-year-old tech ...

Designing an application with universal serial bus (USB) communications enables a system to be able to communicate with a wide variety of USB host devices and provides a convenient power option ...

We still have lots of things that have serial interfaces on them, switches, mangement modules, etc. But we're all out of things that have serial ports. Even the servers who's management modules have a ...

A flurry of new embedded interface devices from SMSC covers a range of connectivity interfaces, from the LAN9118 10/100 Non-PCI Ethernet Controller to the serial/parallel interface SIO 1000 Controller ...

On the USB-connected systems, I get a lot of 'vetoed power requests' and such and it is not uncommon to get the 'lost communication' messages either. The USB is just tricky. Go with serial if you can ...

The classic serial null-modem cable was, among other things, used to connect two computers together for communications and file transfer. Largely eliminated in daily use by the advent of home ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is one of today's most useful and prevalent connection methods. So many electronic components in the market—from cameras to computers to cell phones—have USB-enabled ...

Many modern devices, such as smartphones and other portable devices, no longer feature an analog audio jack. Instead, a ...