This book explains different aspects of serial data communication. Serial data communications is the foundation for most forms of data communications used with modern computing devices. The focus of the articles in this book will be around the implementation of RS-232 (aka RS-232C, aka V.24, aka EIA-232D, etc.) based serial data communication and will explore a wide range of implementations and uses for serial data transfer.

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Book Contents

Authors
Preface
  • General
  Introduction and OSI Network Model
  RS-232 Wiring and Connections
  Typical RS232-Hardware Configuration
  • Low-Level serial Interface Hardware
  Programming the 8250 UART
  MAX232 Driver/Receiver Family
  • Specific Programming Environments
  Serial Data Communications in DOS
  TAPI communications in Windows
  Serial communications in Linux and Unix
Unix V7 Serial Programming (ancient)
termio: System V terminal I/O (improves on V7)
termios: POSIX terminal I/O (improves on termio)
  Serial communications using Java
  • Programming serial Devices
  Hayes-compatible Modems and AT Commands
AT Commands: & Commands
AT Commands: A-M
AT Commands: N-Z
  • Serial Programming Applications
  Forming Data Packets
  Error Correction Methods
  Two Way Communication
  Serial Data Networks
  Practical Application Development
  IP over Serial Connections
  • Appendix: communications channels that are very similar to RS-232
  RS-485
  • Appendix: communications channels that are technically serial but really quite different from RS-232 (these will soon move to a different book)
  Universal Serial Bus (USB)
  Serial ATA

Resources

See Subject:Computer engineering for other kinds of low-level serial interface hardware that typically have the same high-level programming interface as RS-232 (RS-422, RS-423, RS-449, RS-485, MIL-STD-188, Universal Serial Bus (USB), etc.) and hardware that happens to be serial (Serial ATA, Wifi, Ethernet, etc), although it usually uses a very different high-level protocol.