On 2011-09-11 02:37, Martin Bishop wrote:
Additionally, the FT232 and FT245 devices implement
JTAG over USB and
byte wide FIFOs, using certified drivers, and are available on modules
by FTDI and DLP
http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/Modules/USBRSxxx.htm
If you're into hardware devel/debug, check out ftdi and openocd in google.
There are converters out there, which have one channel rs232, and a pin
header for bit-banging hardware. That's what I use, since my laptop
doesn't have any real RS232 anymore.