There’s still plenty of useful hardware out there that uses an RS-232 interface, like the Behringer Ultradrive loudspeaker systems that [Lasse Lukkari] works with from time to time. Rather than ditch ...

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

A data channel that transfers digital data in a serial fashion: one bit after the other over one wire or fiber. Serial interfaces may have multiple lines, but only one line is used for data. The other ...

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 ...

In applications that range from DSL terminations to network switch fabrics, the quest for integration has led designers to put high-speed serial interfaces onto their system-level chips. Often this is ...

For years now, ATA (also known as IDE and, in the last several years, as EIDE as well) has been the connection of choice for disk drives on the desktop. In enterprise IT rooms, SCSI devices represent ...

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 ...

GeeThree.com has noted that its Stealth Serial Port is now available in a configuration that works with Apple’s Power Mac G5. The interface is designed to bridge compatibility between Apple’s newest ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, ...

For PCI bus interfacing, the OX16PC1952 brings together a PCI interface, two high performance serial channels, and a parallel port in one compact, 128-pin TQFP package. This integrated bridge device ...