We’re pretty spoiled these days in that hobby electronics has made a lot of cool tools available on a budget. It’s hard to think of a better example than a logic analyzer, which you can get for a day ...

Frontline Test Equipment has released Serialtest, a PC-based serial communications protocol analyzer. In response to customer needs, Serialtest contains decoders for Modbus RTU and ASCII, Serial PPP, ...

The hot-swap serial-interface circuit in Figure 1 allows two computers to see all of the communication between each computer and each device on the communication network for that serial port. This ...

9-channel logic analyzer provides direct connection to CAN, RS485, RS232, LIN bus and 8-bit buses. Ikalogic’s ScanaPLUS, a 9-channel logic analyzer, integrates two differential receivers for direct ...

Anyone will tell you that as hard as it is to create a working system, the real trick is making two systems talk to each other, especially if you created only one or none of them. That’s why tools ...