Virtual Serial Port Cookbook - Softcover

Joe Pardue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976682214 ISBN 13: 9780976682219

Publisher: Smiley Micros, 2007

Synopsis

This is a cookbook for communicating between a PC and a Microcontroller using the FTDI FT232R USB UART IC. The book has lots of software and hardware examples. The code is in C# and Visual Basic Express allowing you to build Graphical User Interfaces and add Serial Port functions to create communications programs.

Part 1 - Serial Port via USB Made Almost Easy -- In the first section you will learn the basics of serial communications using a USB UART bridge. You will further learn to write a simple terminal program in C# and Visual Basic Express .NET.

Part 2 - PC to 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 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.

About this title

About the Author:

The author (Electrical Engineer and award winning writer) also wrote C Programming for Microcontrollers also available from Amazon. He brings over 20 years of experience to the sometimes difficult job of making dense technological subjects both interesting and easy to understand.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smiley Micros
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0976682214
• ISBN 13: 9780976682219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416