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Summary: Detect communication intended for it
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Summary: Excellent companion to the PC parallel port.
Review: 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.
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Summary: El equilibrio entre hardware&software
Review: El libro justo para quien sabe lo que quiere. Explicaciones claras y planteo de problemas claves que se presentan a la hora de comenzar un proyecto. Realmente excelente.
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Summary: Title Matches Content
Review: I bought the book hoping that it would cover RS-485 well enough for me to use it as a reference for my next project. I wasn't disappointed. It has all the needed information. The really nice thing I didn't expect was the helpful "guidelines for trouble-free RS-485 links", which included hints on how to deal with cable delay, impedance, termination, reflections, noise, topologies, circuit protection, etc... I'm not sure how some of these other reviewers were disappointed. The book is very detailed (for the expert), but still easy to read (for the beginner). There is information about how to use microcontrollers and PCs, but it doesn't come at the cost of information on serial communication. In fact, I found that some of the examples using microcontrollers gave me a few ideas for my project.( ) BASIC is a completely logical language to use for showing examples in this book. It is simple and concise. Anyone who complains about it is a zealot, fighting some language war.
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Summary: What this book does and doesn't cover...
Review: My goal in writing Serial Port Complete was to provide a guide to hardware interfacing and programming of RS-232 and RS-485 links and networks, especially for control and monitoring applications. The PC examples use the MSComm control included with Visual Basic (except the Learning edition). The microcontroller examples use Basic Stamps and 8052-Basic chips. In addition to programming advice, there are tips on hardware interfacing, including cable choices, options for RS-485 terminations, and using port power. For more details about what's in the book, take a look at the Table of Contents listing on this site. Although the title is Serial Port Complete, no single book can cover every aspect of serial communications. If you're looking for guidance on serial programming in C/C++, I recommend Communications Programming for Windows 95 by Mirho and Terrisse. If you want to know about modem communications from Visual Basic, see Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications by Richard Grier. For Internet applications, see Carl Franklin's Visual Basic 6 Internet Programming. Thanks for your interest in Serial Port Complete! Jan Axelson jan@lvr.com
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Summary: Outstanding! "The" authority on COMM programming
Review: Once again, Jan Axelson has done an outstanding job of taking a difficult subject and explaining it to those of us who aren't rocket scientists. The source code works wonderfully and unlike many other books, she provides real-world examples. My only complaint is that she left out examples for the popular PowerBASIC compilers for Windows (although the VB code ports fairly easily).
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Summary: Serial Port Complete is for the Visual Basic user
Review: 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).
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Summary: Serial Port Complete is for the Visual Basic user
Review: 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).
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Summary: Serious On Serial (SOS)
Review: The book should find space on the shelf of anyone interested in interfacing a Windows PC to another device using the serial port. Do you want to communication with a microcontroller or other embedded processor? Here it is. Axelson spends time covering information that you simply will not find elsewhere. Her BASIC Stamp program example is an illustration of this detail. Also covered are details on RS-422/RS-485, cabling, etc.
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Summary: Good mix of PC and Embedded
Review: The hardware details provides a good detail of general techniques and parts. However the software sections leave much to be desired, c'mon Visual Basic? Really great for beginners and novices, experts are best to save their money.
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