Serial buses dot the landscape of embedded design. From displays to storage to peripherals, serial interfaces make communications possible. Many serial communication interfaces compete for use in ...

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...

Designing an application with universal serial bus (USB) communications enables a system to be able to communicate with a wide variety of USB host devices and provides a convenient power option ...

This document is an application note describing use of the USB peripheral communications device class driver (PCDC) with the USB basic firmware of Renesas USB MCU and USB ASSP.The program described ...

Universal serial bus (USB) is a popular method for personal computers (PC) to communicate with peripherals via cables. In some applications, it’s desirable to isolate the USB communication to achieve ...

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...