USB to TTL

USB to TTL Serial Cable Tutorial

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The following pages guide the user on how to use the USB to TTL Serial Cable for communications with a microcontroller. The tutorial uses a PIC as an example microcontroller, although the software example are specific to the PIC microcontroller the principles are generic and should easily be adapted for other controllers.

Overview

Installation and Setup

	Installing the USB device
	Connecting the Cable to the Microcontroller
	Hyper-Terminal Setup

Beginners:

	Introduction
	Microcontroller UART setup
	Sending a character to the PC
	Receiving a character from the PC
	Creating a program using MPLAB and HI-TECH C Compiler

Advanced:

	FIFO buffers
	Using Interrupts
	Protocols
	Writing a PC application in Visual Basic
	Finding which Com Port the Cable is connected to in software