Handbook of Serial Communications Interfaces

A Comprehensive Compendium of Serial Digital Input/Output (I/O) Standards

This book catalogs the most popular and commonly used serial-port interfaces and provides details on the specifications and the latest standards, enabling you to select an interface for a new design or verify that an interface is working correctly. Each chapter is based on a different interface and is written in an easy to follow, standard format.

With this book you will learn:

• The most widely used serial interfaces

• How to select the best serial interface for a specific application or design

• The trade-offs between data rate and distance (length or range)

• The operation and benefits of serial data transmission

• The most common media used for serial data transmission

• Covers the most popular and commonly used interfaces and provides details on their specifications and standards

• Explains the key concepts to enable an engineer to select an interface for a new design or verify that an interface is working correctly

• Each chapter is based on a different interface and is written in an easy to follow, standard format