Gaining market share by buying up smaller companies in key tech sectors is an established practice in the software industry and has been for years. But is it the future? In the past three years Oracle ...

The “Special Report—Test Applications” in our January issue focuses on the software tools as well as logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, BERTs, phase-noise testers, spectrum analyzers, vector network ...

This application note describes the USB-to-serial conversion sample software created for the USB function controller incorporated in the μPD78F0730 microcontroller. This application note provides the ...

In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic analyzer. Today, you can get cheap logic ...

So let’s say your using an Arduino in your project. You already have the hardware-based serial interface working with one portion of the project and need a second serial port for unrelated hardware.