Serial port technology

Author: Li Zhaoqing
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book is comprehensive in content, with novel material and clear explanations. It connects theory with practice, enabling readers to independently design serial communication hardware and software after reading it through practical circuit design and example programs. The book is suitable for programmers, hardware designers, system test and maintenance personnel, experimental personnel, students, and users of computer devices connected via serial ports. It systematically introduces the basic knowledge of serial communication technology and how to use serial ports for communication. The book covers most of the issues related to serial port communication, including an introduction to the basics of serial communication; an introduction to serial ports in computers and the receivers and transmitters in serial ports; a detailed explanation of the RS-232 standard, the connection of RS-232 circuits, and the design of complete RS-232 circuits; advanced technologies used in today's RS-232 circuit design are introduced with examples; several commonly used programming languages for controlling and managing serial ports are detailed with examples, including programming serial ports using the MSComm control in VB, the steps of serial port programming using the BasicStamp microcontroller, communication programming using Win32API, applying multithreading in Windows, controlling modems with the MSComm control, and writing communication programs with TAPI. The book also covers RS-422/RS-485, which evolved from RS-232. USB and IEEE1394 are the two currently popular high-speed serial bus standards, and the book provides a brief introduction to them.