Microcontroller Serial Communications Articles - Revision history

DavidCary: link to related articles, etc.

2025-11-13T00:11:33Z

link to related articles, etc.

2025-04-11T18:30:56Z

mention bootloader, etc.

2024-02-24T19:01:44Z

link to related articles

2014-04-03T16:27:45Z

mention Local Interconnect Network

2014-04-03T14:04:12Z

link to CAN bus

2012-04-05T13:31:07Z

2011-01-02T21:44:49Z

Microcontroller Projects that Use Serial Communications

2010-12-30T23:22:48Z

Microcontroller Projects that Use Serial Communications

2010-12-30T15:55:38Z

2010-12-30T15:55:12Z

Microcontroller Projects that Use Serial Communications

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 * Microcontroller Serial Communications Articles this article, the a root for the articles on the site.
 * [[BitWacker PIC and Other Microcontroller to Java Communications]] an oveview of the applications for Microcontroller Serial Communications.
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 * [[Expansion bus]] discusses parallel communication, which was once far more common.
-*[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming Serial Programming -- From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection]
+*[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming Serial Programming -- From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection]; which mentions some unavoidable tradeoffs in [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming/Forming_Data_Packets | Serial Programming/Forming Data Packets]]
 *[http://www.pharmalabauto.com/Electronics/pdfs/RS232.pdf Application Note 83 Fundamentals of RS–232 Serial Communications] a pdf, good
 *[http://www.myplogger.com/circuit/admin/aa13af474cb1e3a0b1f51b6fa84e88c5.pdf {Serial Communications Protocol}] a pdf, not just for the PIC18
 [[category:Serial Communications]][[category:Microcontroller]][[category:Techniques]][[category:BoostC]][[category:Arduino]]

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	* [[JTAG]] is often used for programming and debugging.		* [[JTAG]] is often used for programming and debugging.
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		+	Often a serial protocol is the interface between 2 programs in 2 completely different [[Programming Languages]].
		+	It makes debugging much easier if the communications protocol is human-readable and human-writable.
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		+	Some microcontrollers have enough resources that
		+	the "application-level" data interface, the debugging interface ("debug port"), and the programming interface
		+	can each use completely separate, dedicated pins.
		+	Sometimes the same serial interface
		+	can be used for both "application-level" data (sensor data, motor torque / speed, PID settings, etc.) as well as debugging information.
		+	Once a microcontroller has been programmed with a bootloader,
		+	sometimes the same serial interface can also be used to send new software to the microcontroller.
		+	(Preferably the application protocol, the debug protocol, and the bootloader protocol
		+	can be easily distinguished so that a little debug information can squeeze in between bursts of application data,
		+	and neither one accidentally triggers the bootloader.
		+	).

	== Microcontroller Projects that Use Serial Communications ==		== Microcontroller Projects that Use Serial Communications ==

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 * [[SPI]] is a popular protocol for many small peripheral chips
 * [[CAN bus]] is designed to allow low-cost devices to communicate with each other within a vehicle without a host computer.
 * Local Interconnect Network (LIN) is designed to be even lower-cost than CAN bus. Some large systems use many simple sensors in low-cost LIN sub-networks, then connect the single master of each LIN sub-network with CAN or some other backbone network.
 == Microcontroller Projects that Use Serial Communications ==
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 == Other Readings ==
 *[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Serial_Programming Serial Programming -- From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection]

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 * [[SPI]] is a popular protocol for many small peripheral chips
-* [[CAN bus]] is designed to allow low-cost to communicate with each other within a vehicle without a host computer.
+* [[CAN bus]] is designed to allow low-cost devices to communicate with each other within a vehicle without a host computer.
 == Microcontroller Projects that Use Serial Communications ==

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	* [[SPI]] is a popular protocol for many small peripheral chips		* [[SPI]] is a popular protocol for many small peripheral chips
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		+	* [[CAN bus]] is designed to allow low-cost to communicate with each other within a vehicle without a host computer.

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 == Microcontroller Projects that Use Serial Communications ==
-*[[PIC Stepper Motor Tester]]
+*[[Stepper Motor Demonstration and Tester]] a project for both PIC's and Arduinos.
 *[[Arduino Command Interpreter]]

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	*[http://www.pharmalabauto.com/Electronics/pdfs/RS232.pdf Application Note 83 Fundamentals of RS–232 Serial Communications] a pdf, good		*[http://www.pharmalabauto.com/Electronics/pdfs/RS232.pdf Application Note 83 Fundamentals of RS–232 Serial Communications] a pdf, good

−	[[category:Serial Communications]][[category:Microcontroller]][[category:Techniques]][[category:BoostC]]	+	[[category:Serial Communications]][[category:Microcontroller]][[category:Techniques]][[category:BoostC]][[category:Arduino]]

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	*[[Arduino Laser Cannon]]		*[[Arduino Laser Cannon]]
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		+	*[[Stepper Motor Tester for the Arduino]]

	*[[Arduino Command Interpreter]]		*[[Arduino Command Interpreter]]