At one time Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor) produced a CMOS addressable asynchronous receiver/transmitter AART (MC14469) that operated much like a stand-alone UART. This device received ...

The Electroswitch Series 24 Serial Lock-Out Relay (SLOR) is an addressable network device (certified DNP 3.0 protocol) that provides remote trip and reset capability, trip-coil monitoring, IRIG-B ...

We use the Raritan KSX serial "KVM". It works well enough, although we did have a problem initially with cables for devices that use an RJ-45 connector rather than DB-9 (like that for the NetApp).

Anyone who shops for robotics kits would have come across a few designed by Lynxmotion. They’ve been helping people build robots since 1995, from robot arm kits to hexapod chassis and everything in ...

Ed Sutter, the fellow who created MicroMonitor (uMon), an open-source embedded-system boot platform, sent me a note about his newest software, uCon, an embedded system console. Although many people ...

A serial connection is probably not the first port that sprang to mind while bemoaning Apple's shortage of socket options on iOS devices, but that's just what Southern Stars and Redpark are offering.

One thing's for sure; we are past the heyday of the motion controller as backplane-expansion card with field wiring. There are two main reasons. First is the trouble of finding a consistent source of ...