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| Virtual Serial Port Cookbook & Kit Combo |
Virtual Serial Port Cookbook - Revision
Learn how to use the FTDI USB FT232R Serial converter.
Part 1 – Serial Port via USB Made Almost Easy
In the first section you will learn the basics of serial communications
using a USB Serial UART bridge. You will also learn to write a simple
terminal program in C# and Visual Basic Express .NET.
Part 2 – PC Microcontroller Conversations
In the second section you will build on what you have learned and get into more details
about GUI programming, using the SerialPort class, and some useful software tools such
as XML. You will bring it all together by building a Developer Terminal, which will
have most of the bells and whistles that you would want for communicating between a
PC and a microcontroller. You will end this section with some neat hardware
experiments.
Part 3 – The FTDI FT232R
In the final section you will chuck the serial port paradigm and communicate directly
with the FTDI FT232R. You will learn how to use the Smiley Micros port
of the FTDI D2XX driver, you will do some more hardware experiments
bit-banging the BBUSB pins, and finally you will build a software
programmer for the FT232R.
Revised Edition the book includes FT232R breakout boards from Sparkfun and Gravitech. The parts kit has two of the Gravitech boards.
The Virtual Serial Port Cookbook has hardware experiments that allow you to use the BBUSB (BreadBoard USB). These include:
· Communicate between two BBUSB in Serial UART mode.
· Use UART signals to read switches and light LEDs
· Use a BBUSB with RS232 Level Converters
· Use special bit-bang drivers to read switches and light LEDs
· Create the ‘World’s Smallest Moving Message Sign?’
This combo includes:
1 Virtual Serial Port Cookbook
1 Source Code CD
2 FT232R Breakout boards
1 Breadboard + Wires
1 8-position DIP Switch
1 7-Segment LED
1 RS232 Voltage Level Converter
8 LEDs
8 2.2k ohm resistors
2 220 resistors
5 0.1 uF capacitors
1 DB-9 female connector
1 DB-9 male connector
2 9" solid insulated AWG 22 wire
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