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 ...

FTDI-gate wasn’t great for anybody, and now with hardware hobbyists and technological tinkerers moving away from the most popular USB to serial adapter, some other chip has to fill the void. The ...

Some businesses require serial numbers for all USB devices attached to their network. The Window Device Manager console displays a list of all your USB peripherals and provides you with detailed ...

Over the last two weeks I published an article reference the USB to serial converter see Project Usb to serial converter http://edn.com/project/mark_harrington/usb-to ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is one of the most commonly required interfaces in a chip design, but validation of a USB host implementation can be a tedious task. The most efficient way to validate ...

In the last two installments of Driving Me Nuts [LJ August 2002 and October 2002], we covered the tty layer, explaining how to create a minimal tty driver. We also explained some of the various ioctls ...