The Xtreme Bus Emulator (XBE) VXI-bus emulator allows the emulation of a digital parallel or serial bus by downloading a unique micro-code that defines the bus protocol scheduled for execution. It ...

The R2A20150NP/SA is a CMOS 8-bit I/O expander, which has serial to parallel and parallel to serial data converting functions. It can communicate with a microcontroller via few wiring thanks to the ...

This is just a general question. I know, obviously, that there are RS-232 "serial ports" and IEEE 1284/Centronix ports "parallel ports," and that these are "digital" connections. Then you have things ...

This article is part of Now and Then series and part of Electronic Design's 70th Anniversary series. Processors and memory have changed radically over the past 70 years, but the variability of those ...