After a youth spent playing with Amigas and getting into all sorts of trouble on the school computer network, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for hardware from the 80s and 90s. This extends ...

What is a serial peripheral interface (SPI)? A serial peripheral interface (SPI) is an interface commonly used in computers and embedded systems to facilitate short-distance communication between a ...

If you’re working with a microcontroller that reads a sensor, the chances are that at some point you’re faced with a serial port passing out continuous readings. The workflow of visualizing this data ...

When looking at protocol information on a bus, an oscilloscope may not be the first instrument to come to mind�until now. As most engineers know, digital oscilloscopes are an indispensable ...

Digital parallel and serial converters adapt data transmitted in a parallel port to a serial communication format, or adapt serial port data to parallel communication format. Data converters are ...

This application note describes an example of application in which the I2C module of the SH7145F is used to read/write data from/to a two-wire serial (I2C bus) EEPROM. Data communication is generally ...