Recommendations to work around no serial port

JimB · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:05 am

I want to move the compiler and debugger to my laptop which has no serial port. I want to be able to read the printf statements to check my code. What is the best way to go? I found a small module that will make a USB port emulate a serial port. About $30. Are these things as good as they advertise?

JimB

jfk1965 · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 58

I've done exactly the same and I use one of the USB to serial convertors with no problems at all $30 seems a bit steep though, I paid �10 for mine which equates to around $17.

JFK

arunb · Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 492 Location: India

Hi,

Quite right these USB converters are quite handy apart from being cheap.
These converters work exactly like the in built ones.

They also work with ActiveX controls like MSCOMM control.

thanks
arunb

Mark · Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 2838 Location: Atlanta, GA

However, there are occasions where we have have problems using these devices. Usually this involves timing critical applications. For what you want, they should work just fine.