This book explains different aspects of serial data communication. Serial data communications is the foundation for most forms of data communications used with modern computing devices. The focus of the articles in this book will be around the implementation of RS-232 (aka RS-232C, aka V.24, aka EIA-232D, etc.) based serial data communication and will explore a wide range of implementations and uses for serial data transfer.

Book Contents

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Authors

Preface

• General

Introduction and OSI Network Model

RS-232 Wiring and Connections

Typical RS232-Hardware Configuration

• Low-Level serial Interface Hardware

Programming the 8250 UART

MAX232 Driver/Receiver Family

• Specific Programming Environments

Serial Data Communications in DOS

TAPI communications in Windows

Serial communications in Linux and Unix

Unix V7 Serial Programming (ancient)

termio: System V terminal I/O (improves on V7)

termios: POSIX terminal I/O (improves on termio)

Serial communications using Java

• Programming serial Devices

Hayes-compatible Modems and AT Commands

AT Commands: & Commands

AT Commands: A-M

AT Commands: N-Z

• Serial Programming Applications

Forming Data Packets

Error Correction Methods

Two Way Communication

Serial Data Networks

Practical Application Development

IP over Serial Connections

• Appendix: communications channels that are very similar to RS-232

RS-485

• Appendix: communications channels that are technically serial but really quite different from RS-232 (these will soon move to a different book)

Universal Serial Bus (USB)

Serial ATA

Resources

See Subject:Computer engineering for other kinds of low-level serial interface hardware that typically have the same high-level programming interface as RS-232 (RS-422, RS-423, RS-449, RS-485, MIL-STD-188, Universal Serial Bus (USB), etc.) and hardware that happens to be serial (Serial ATA, Wifi, Ethernet, etc), although it usually uses a very different high-level protocol.