Okay, I was thinking last night about a possible mod, and have some questions.<BR><BR>My idea was to use an old VU meter or analog voltage meter as a processor usage meter to put on the front bezel of ...

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 ...

I have a bunch of Kenwood TK-2100 VHF radios that are re-programmable via the serial port. I have a DOS-based application that works with the radios, but is only reliable with computers with two (2) ...

This application note discusses best practices for use of the Serial Port Interface (SPI) Mode selection feature of Hittite’s PLL and PLLVCO product lines. In this note, we will refer to them all, ...

GNU Octave 4 [1] with its graphical interface is allowing many more folks to explore the MATLAB [2] programming language who never could have done so before because of the cost. While Octave will ...

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...