A PLC or programmable logic controller is a type of computer often employed to monitor and control industrial manufacturing operations. The device, which you may see referred to as a programmable ...

Since the introduction of the USB protocol, you don't see many serial devices anymore. For that reason, most manufacturers no longer include a serial port on desktop or laptop computers. Therefore, if ...

While the RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485 serial standards are hardly new, combining them over a single connector creates challenges unforeseen when these standards were first drafted years ago.

A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

As legacy computing projects upgrade from VME and CompactPCI systems, or as new projects arise, an important choice is presented: “which direction do we go?” For open standard embedded computing, the ...

A security researcher has identified thousands of Serial-to-Ethernet devices connected online that leak Telnet passwords that could be used to attack the equipment that is placed behind them. The ...