HyperTransport, or whatever, is like 5 serial lines in parallel.<P>Ya, stuff comes full circle. The big push for serial is it's hard to run 128 parallel data lines everywhere.

It’s the easiest thing in the world — simple, straightforward serial data. It’s the fallback communication protocol for nearly every embedded system out there, and so it’s one that you really want to ...

While most of you reading this have broadband in your home, there are still vast areas with little access to the Internet. Ham radio operator [emmynet] found himself in just such a situation recently, ...

After the new millennium, the channels between the computer and its peripheral devices have switched from parallel to serial data transfer. Although it would seem that a parallel cable with multiple ...

Managing large numbers of Linux and UNIX systems takes a lot of organization, automation and careful use of technology. A significant chunk of one's time as a system administrator is spent building ...

I had a thread over in the Programmer's Symposium, but I think the line of questioning has turned more into a kernel issue. I have been tasked with getting response time for writing a single byte to ...

Schneider Electric has released a Modbus Communication DTM that supports FDT2 while providing connectivity to Modbus devices over serial lines or TCP. Backward compatibility of FDT2 makes the DTM ...