18 Aug
2012
18 Aug
'12
5:57 a.m.
On Aug 18, 2012, at 3:01 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 17 Aug 2012 at 16:25, Fred Cisin wrote:
Pretty well, actually. They function about as well as a 16550 does
for most purposes, at least as long as you go with a good one. The
FTDI chips (FT232 and descendants, such as FT2232, FT4232) are quite
good. Other chips (particularly Prolific ones) are not so great; I
have a Prolific adaptor that I can really only use when I need human
readable text, because it has an annoying habit of emitting garbage
characters when I attach to the device.
- Dave
Somewhere, I have a couple of Coutriers, but I
need to look for them.
This POS doesn't have a REAL serial port. Q: do USB to serial adapters
work? well enough for modems?
It might--I use one as a convenient connection to debugging projects
that use RS232 for output. I don't know how well they work with
hardware (RTS/CTS) handshaking, however.