If you’re planning to do some hacking with CPLD or FPGA chips you’ll need a way to program them. JTAG is one of the options and here’s a cheap method that uses the serial port (translated). This ...

Today, connectBlue added the Rugged Bluetooth Serial Port Adapter RBS433 to the widely acclaimed Serial Port Adapter product range. The robust and water proof RBS433 provides a plug-and-play solution ...

A bootloader makes it possible to update a product’s firmware in the field. Common communication interfaces like UART, I 2 C, SPI or USB can be used to update the firmware, which typically involves a ...

The RBS421s supports both classic Bluetooth and Bluetooth low energy and can be used as a Bluetooth Smart Ready client for any host. The unit provides a plug-and-play replacement for conventional ...

I'm currently involved in a project to critically damp the vibrations of a washing machine using a variable damping coefficient. The way we're getting input from the system is through a serial port ...

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 ...

“Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” Don’t bother us with stupid questions, they both co-evolved into the forms that we now serve up in tasty sandwiches or omelets, respectively. “Which came ...