Serial Port Complete: Programming and Circuits for RS-232 and RS-485 [With Disk]

Another excellent book form Jan Axelson. Superbly written. Easy to understand lucid and still technically a completely reliable reference. Once the basics have been mastered one can develop a variety of applications (particularly control circuits). Equally useful for beginners, students and professionals. Good support material provided on auther's web-site. This book makes a good companion of the similar book on Parallel port interface by the same auther. Students looking for good projects will find this book extremely useful. Even self study is possible for a newcomer.Highly recommended.

There are two must have books on the subject of serial communications - this book and Richard Grier's "Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications". Buy both books for your reference library. This book helped me in developing a Human Machine Interface (HMI) application with communications to serial devices. ...

This is a superb book to help you interface a hardware device that you built, to the PC's serial port. But it is much more than that. It also shows how to network multiple computers using the serial port (hence creating your own network!). In addition, it also has details on how to interface some microcontroller based designs to the serial port as well. The author does focus on Visual Basic to access the ports but gives clear pointers as to how to use other methods to access the serial port ( including C ). The disk even has dll's you can use for direct port access even though this is forbidden under WinNT/2000, unless you use the function CreateFile(). All and all, I thought I got more for my money than I could've hoped for. Thank you Jan Axelson!

well, i was doing a project that required some very simple interface with a serial device, this book was the only book i brought and it coved more than enough material to make my project work. about the VB code, well, what i can say, I was using VB..... well, the book had a very in depth cover of the hardware and the standard of the rs232c. If you want to know how the electronics works, this is the book for you. if you just want some quick and dirty tricks to make the connection work, this book will also do. as i said early, it had VB examples. in 15 minutes, you will know the basics, and programing in no time!

The book Serial Port Complete is an excellent review of the hardware and signal handling aspects of using the RS-232 and RS-485 systems. It deals well with many of the "rules of thumb" that many have had to learn the hard way over time. The book is limited in its help for the PC user. While it has many usefull examples for the Visual Basic user, most of these can not be extended to the C++ user in a simple clean manner. The Section on using the Windows API's is much too simplified to actually use it for anything usefull (even the author indicates it is limited).