Modern technology builds on abstractions. Most application programmers today don’t know what a non-maskable interrupt is, nor should they have to. Even fewer understand register coloring or ...

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 ...

Now that we listen to MP3s, and watch XVIDs or x264s, a computer is the entertainment center in at least one room of most homes. Unless you have a special HTPC, though, you’re probably stuck using the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As technology has advanced, the types of ports on computers have also changed for the better. However, that doesn't mean devices with older ...

Over the last two weeks I published an article reference the USB to serial converter see Project Usb to serial converter http://edn.com/project/mark_harrington/usb-to ...

I have a PC-based DSO that connects via parallel port that I'd like to get working via USB (preferable) or at least ExpressCard. I picked up a USB-parallel adapter from MicroCenter thinking it would ...

For years I have been wondering when Cisco would activate the USB ports on their devices. I have been hoping for all kinds of USB functionality to routers, switches, firewalls but Cisco has been slow ...