With many .NET developers moving from the traditional (and broken) System.IO.Ports.SerialPort DataReceived event handling to either the correct and more efficient BaseStream.BeginRead / BaseStream.EndRead pair I promoted in my last post or the newer BaseStream.ReadAsync method introduced in .NET Framework 4.5 along with the C# async and await keywords, a common complaint is that BaseStreamRead more
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Lorris Toolbox is an open source application for working with embedded systems and micro-controllers which was developed by Vojtěch Boček in the Czech Republic. This toolbox of tools has a feature packed packet analyzer tool which makes analyzing and interpreting packets simple. Both Wireshark and Microsoft’s Message Analyzer can also capture packets over the network and USB traffic,Read more
As an embedded developer who writes desktop software mostly for configuration of, and data download from, peripheral devices, I use serial data streams a lot. Mostly USB virtual serial posts from FTDI, but also the USB Communication Device Class and real 16550-compatible UARTs on the PCI bus. Since looking at data through an in-circuit emulatorRead more
In my first blog post on communicating with the Altera Cyclone II FPGA, I demonstrated how to create a serial echo by simply connecting the Tx wire and the Rx wire together. Then in my second post I demonstrated how to use third-party libraries and a clock to allow that serial line to be translated into a byteRead more