A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

A PLC or programmable logic controller is a type of computer often employed to monitor and control industrial manufacturing operations. The device, which you may see referred to as a programmable ...

Prolific PL2303 is a USB-to-Serial adapter cable that lets you connect your computer to the devices with serial ports, like a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller). When you connect a device with your ...

While the RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485 serial standards are hardly new, combining them over a single connector creates challenges unforeseen when these standards were first drafted years ago.

As legacy computing projects upgrade from VME and CompactPCI systems, or as new projects arise, an important choice is presented: “which direction do we go?” For open standard embedded computing, the ...