You may recognize the RS-232 serial port on your TV, but do you know all that it can do? It's probably more than you realized ...

You may have noticed your TV has a port marked RS-232 on the back that doesn't look like any other connector you have. Here's what it's for.

In the early days of personal computers, incorporation of one or two (or more) RS-232 serial ports as general purpose I/O adaptors was common practice. Recently, this “vintage” standard has been ...

Solutions for asynchronous serial communication between systems or subsystems include many possible interface implementations – for example, RS-232, RS-485, RS-422, controller area network (CAN), ...

Before 2000, desktop printers for business had one of two interfaces: serial and parallel. The type of interface dictated the type of cable you used to connect the printer to the PC and how fast the ...

Serial buses dot the landscape of embedded design. From displays to storage to peripherals, serial interfaces make communications possible. Many serial communication interfaces compete for use in ...

I need to connect to devices that use an rs-232 connection, but I was wondering if I could use cat5 cable instead of rs-232 cable since I don't have rs-232 cable but plenty of cat5. The connection ...