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GNU/Linux Rapid Embedded Programming

You're reading from  GNU/Linux Rapid Embedded Programming

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461803
Pages 732 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rodolfo Giometti Rodolfo Giometti
Profile icon Rodolfo Giometti

Table of Contents (26) Chapters

GNU/Linux Rapid Embedded Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
Installing the Developing System Managing the System Console C Compiler, Device Drivers, and Useful Developing Techniques Quick Programming with Scripts and System Daemons Setting Up an Embedded OS General Purposes Input Output signals – GPIO Serial Ports and TTY Devices - TTY Universal Serial Bus - USB Inter-Integrated Circuits - I2C Serial Peripheral Interface - SPI 1-Wire - W1 Ethernet Network Device - ETH Wireless Network Device - WLAN Controller Area Network - CAN Sound Devices - SND Video devices - V4L Analog-to-Digital Converters - ADC Pulse-Width Modulation - PWM Miscellaneous Devices

Implementations of serial ports


While interfaces such as Ethernet or USB send data as a serial stream, the term serial port usually identifies hardware compliant to the RS-232 or RS-422/RS-485 standard.

In modern computers, serial ports have been replaced by USB-to-serial devices due to the fact that a RS-232 port can be easily emulated by a dedicated USB device. However, standard serial ports hardware still exists in the embedded and industrial world. The reason is quite simple: serial ports are easy to use and easy to implement (they require little supporting software from the CPU). So, serial ports are still used in applications such as industrial automation systems and remote monitoring or in some scientific instruments. It's quite easy to find industrial devices (not only a normal peripheral, but just a complete system) that use one or more serial ports to communicate with other systems.

As already stated, the most used serial port implementations are RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485. RS-232...

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