With the TPI4000 protocol analyzer from Tektronix, you can analyze,stimulate, stress, and characterize high-speed serial links at speeds of up to10 Gbps. This single instrument, along with its ...

San Jose, Calif. — A new multi-serial protocol development system, which incorporates Altera Corp.'s Stratix II EP2S90 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and PMC-Sierra's PM8358QuadPHY 10GX ...

Today’s high-end field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with embedded transceivers support a variety of widely accepted serial protocol standards, including Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express, XAUI and ...

Modern embedded systems are becoming increasingly compact, power efficient, and feature rich. As SoCs integrate more functionality, developers need reliable debug access without increasing pin count ...

We’re always excited to get a new chip or SIM card to interface, but our enthusiasm is often dampened by the prototyping process. Interfacing any chip usually means breadboarding a circuit, writing ...

Latest Aurora Reference Design V2.2 From Xilinx Enables Most Efficient Serial Point-to-Point Connectivity For Chip-to-Chip and Backplane Applications SAN JOSE, California, December 9, 2004 - Xilinx, ...

If you’ve been involved with electronics and hardware hacking for awhile, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard of the Bus Pirate. First introduced on the pages of Hackaday back in 2008 by creator ...

SPI Storm serial protocol host adapter from Byte Paradigm supports both quad-/dual-SPI protocols. Controllable via USB interfaces, it accesses ASICs, SoCs, FPGAs, and other serial systems at speeds up ...

“Not being overcomplicated is Modbus TCP/IP’s biggest draw, not only for PLCs, but especially for PC-based applications,” said Jason Haldeman, senior product specialist for I/O and networking at ...

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...