It’s the easiest thing in the world — simple, straightforward serial data. It’s the fallback communication protocol for nearly every embedded system out there, and so it’s one that you really want to ...

After the new millennium, the channels between the computer and its peripheral devices have switched from parallel to serial data transfer. Although it would seem that a parallel cable with multiple ...

While most of you reading this have broadband in your home, there are still vast areas with little access to the Internet. Ham radio operator [emmynet] found himself in just such a situation recently, ...

Pixus Technologies, a provider of embedded computing and enclosure solutions, has released a new product line of enclosure systems based upon the CompactPCI Serial backplane form factor. 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 ...

I had a thread over in the Programmer's Symposium, but I think the line of questioning has turned more into a kernel issue.<br><br>I have been tasked with getting response time for writing a single ...

In the first part of this column (LJ, August 2002) we covered the basics of the tty layer and how to create a minimal tty driver. Now we move on and cover more of the tty layer, trying to explain some ...