Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 13:26:43 11/01/04
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On November 01, 2004 at 12:34:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On November 01, 2004 at 05:39:41, Tony Werten wrote: > >>>If the computer has no serial port then it won't be able to send even that >>>little bit of data... >> >>I have a USB to RS232 converter cable here (from HP). Works ok. Not much >>difference between USB and RS232 from a programmers point of view. Just a >>different port. > >One issue I have with those convertors is that they aren't very strict on the >timing (logical consequence of USB being packet based I guess). > >This breaks some devices - don't know if its true for auto232. > FTDI has USB to serial/parallel converters based on state machines. And they are popular in microcontroller apps. So it would seem they don't break the protocol. One producer using the FTDI solution is EasySync. MvH Dan Andersson
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