Nowadays USB ports are widely used for data transactions between electronic devices and computers. In many scenarios, there is no need to communicate with the USB port directly, therefore electronic ...

When we last left this discussion, I had just finished building an optical head for the serial port on my old Fluke 97 Scopemeter using a matched optoelectronic pair consisting of a 3mm IR LED and ...

If you want to plug a USB cable into your next project, you’ve got a problem. USB is not UART, and UART is what every microcontroller serial port wants. To add USB to your microcontroller project, you ...

Exar Corporation announced the introduction of its XR2280x family of USB to Ethernet Bridge ICs. Exar Corp. has introduced the XR2280x family of USB to Ethernet Bridge ICs. These devices offer an ...

The 1-Wire protocol is usually found in temperature sensors, but you’ll also find it in chips ranging from load sensors, a battery sensor and LED driver that is oddly yet officially called a ‘gas ...