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Virtual Serial Port Cookbook

Part 1 – Serial Port via USB Made Almost Easy
In the first section you will learn the basics of serial communications using a USB UART
bridge. You will further learn to write a simple terminal program in C# and Visual Basic
Express .NET.

Part 2 – PC Microcontroller Conversations
In the second section you will build on what you have learned and get into more details
about GUI programming, using the SerialPort class, and some useful software tools such
as XML. You will bring it all together by building a Developer Terminal, which will
have most of the bells and whistles that you would want for communicating between a
PC and a microcontroller. You will end this section with some neat hardware
experiments.

Part 3 – The FTDI FT232R
In the final section you will chuck the serial port paradigm and communicate directly
with the FT232R. You will learn how to use the Smiley Micros port of the FTDI D2XX
driver, you will do some more hardware experiments bit-banging the BBUSB pins, and
finally you will build a software programmer for the FT232R.

Free Downloads

You can preview the book and learn how to program a simple terminal by downloading the first six chapters of this book. You can also download the source code for these chapters.

Please note that these are large files (the .NET Framework is VERY large at 22.4 MB) and require a broadband internet connection to download in a reasonable time. If you don't have a broadband connection you might consider purchasing the Projects Kit which has the CD, or you can purchase the CD alone.

FREE DOWNLOADS:
Text:
Virtual Serial Port Cookbook Chapters 1 through 6
Terminals:
Simple Terminal
Developer Terminal
Source Code:
Chapter 4 Simple Terminal - Graphical Users Interface
Chapter 5 Simple Terminal - Getting User Input
Chapter 6 Simple Terminal - Serial Port Class

You will also need the FTDI drivers which are available at: DOWNLOAD FTDI DRIVERS
And you will need the .NET framework to run these files (available from microsoft: DOWNLOAD .NET

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