To communicate with a device connected via universal serial bus (USB), a computer needs the driver, not just for the device itself, but also for the USB controller. Microsoft Windows uses USB ...

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Saelig Company, Inc. announced the release of Prolific PL2303RA, an all-in-one IC that provides a convenient, low-chip-count solution for connecting an RS232 full-duplex asynchronous serial device to ...

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is one of the most commonly required interfaces in a chip design, but validation of a USB host implementation can be a tedious task. The most efficient way to validate ...

Silicon Labs’ CP2130 offers a solution for bridging a Universal Serial Bus (USB) host and Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus. The controller, which features driver support for Windows, OS X, and ...