EDN

Interface chips: Between logic and a hard place

Logic signals have fallen from the 15V of the old CMOS 4000 series to 5V TTL (transistor-to-transistor logic) to modern CMOS levels of 3.3, 2.7, and 1.8V. Advanced processes use digital logic that ...
EDN

UART Serial Interface through USB Evaluation Board

The operation and description of the UART serial interface through USB is discussed in this application note. In addition, the firmware application code in C language, containing communication ...
Design-Reuse

Serial Peripheral Interface. SPI, these three letters denote everything you asked for

Electronics is everywhere, especially these days. Many times, as frequent users, we do not even notice a “paradigm change” in the things we use on regular basis. We use a fridge, but we do not care ...
Design-Reuse

LSI Logic first with Serial ATA 1.0 ASIC implementation - expands high-speed interface portfolio

LSI Logic Serial ATA 1.0 Link & Transport core and 1.5 gigabit-per-second Serial ATA 1.0 Physical Layer core now available for easy integration into an ASIC Serial ATA Working Group expects Serial ATA ...
Electronic Design

Power Your Peripheral from the Serial Interface

Robust serial interfaces such as USB and IEEE-1394 ™ have revolutionized personal computing. They provide a simple-to-use interconnection to a variety of different peripherals, ranging from products ...
Electronic Design

USB-To-UART/FIFO Interface IC Eyes Next-Generation Peripheral Design

Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany: Using the recent Embedded World show as its platform, Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) launched the FT232H USB2.0 Hi-Speed device. The single-channel ...