The Plan The plan is simple enough. A Linux program listens to a real serial port and watches for special character sequences in the data stream.

The simulation of a serial port in software in order to allow USB, Ethernet or some other input/output port to take its place. Virtual serial ports are necessary to enable an application that was ...

I've got the USB-serial adapter, and the DB9-RJ45 cord. I am lacking a program to reach out and be a console terminal. What's the hotness?

This has always meant needing a PC loaded with your favorite serial terminal program close at hand. Most of the time this is not an issue, because the PC is used to compile the code and program ...

Serial Port Monitor is a professional software tool that enables you to conduct COM port tests on all of your system's RS232/422/485 COM ports. It allows one to monitor, display, keep logs and study ...

I program microcontrollers which require a terminal connection through RS-232. I currently use HyperTerm under Windows. I'm aware of USB to RS-232 serial adapters, but I was wondering which ...

Ed Sutter, the fellow who created MicroMonitor (uMon), an open-source embedded-system boot platform, sent me a note about his newest software, uCon, an embedded system console. Although many people ...

How to Redirect COM1 to a USB Port. Some software and specialty hardware requires you to use a traditional serial port. Serial ports have been around for decades and work by transferring one bit ...

The simple method described here evaluates a one-wire device that uses pulse-width-encoded communications from a PC serial port. Communications errors such as parity and acknowledge are monitored ...