With Linux and the serial port there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that Linux has great support for serial hardware of all sorts and a host of tools for accessing the serial ...

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Before USB ports became standard on PCs, several devices connected through a serial port. They're obsolete in many ways, but they still see some use.

Serial Port Monitor from Eltima The Serial Port Monitor software tool from Eltima Software is, in fact, a professional port sniffer and analyzer system utility good for RS232/RS422/RS485 port ...

If you’re working with a microcontroller that reads a sensor, the chances are that at some point you’re faced with a serial ...

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 ...

That's why laptops with a true RS232 serial port are at a premium for certain applications.<BR><BR>There are *some* USB-Serial bridges that are better than others. Most only understand a subset of ...

Although serial port connections have been replaced by USB ports in most computers, older business equipment such as fax machines and printers may still utilize them. When a serial port stops ...

But the serial port is not dead. While RS-232 is mainly gone from the computer scene, it is still alive and well in industry. In fact, according to some, the RS-232 product business is still growing.

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