More about serial (113)

1-11-2002 | In last month’s article we took a look at the background and specification of the OBD-2 diagnostic connector fitted to new cars. Now, as pro...

1-04-2002 | The use of I/O functions in Windows programs is still a grey area for most programmers. In this article, we shed some light on the use of th...

1-04-2002 | The 1-Wire devices from Dallas Semiconductor are components that via a simple serial connection can be connected to each other, a circuit or...

1-10-2001 | With the help of a minimal quantity of hardware and a simple piece of software it is possible to tap into the data stream between two serial...

1-07-2001 | The EDE1144 Keypad Encoder IC from E•Lab Digital Engineering (www.elabinc.com) is designed to interface a matrix-type 4 row × 4 column (16-k...

1-06-2001 | This project is a card with 32 analogue inputs with 12-bit resolution each for external connection to the serial port. The feature par excel...

1-04-2001 | Early 1995, Yamaha introduced a new range of synthesizers with interesting interface capabilities. For the first time, these machines were c...

1-03-2001 | In previous articles in this series we have described an A/D converter based on a counter. A ‘real’ A/D converter, however, converts a volta...

1-02-2001 | In the previous instalment we measured capacitances and resistances. You may have wondered if this was all worth the effort, when accurate a...

1-01-2001 | So far in this series we have used the PC only with digital signals: switching, monitoring and counting. Now we turn to the analogue domain:...