Advantages Of Rs232 Serial Communication
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$begingroup$I understand (or am learning, rather) how both RS232 and USB work. What I am really curious about, and can not seem to find much information for, is what kind of disadvantages do USB to RS232 dongles have, if any? I understand driver issues and all of that, I mean is there any significant functionality of RS232 that is lost in the conversion, or can USB to RS232 conversions behave exactly like a native RS232 port?
Additionally, if some dongles are better than others (now with respect to both possible functionality and decent drivers, preferably linux based), do you have any suggestions for a good brand or model?
Advantages Of Rs232 Serial Communication
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$begingroup$Driver issues aside the main disadvantage of USB to serial converters ports that I'm aware of is increased latency. Some embedded devices, wireless modems, device programmers and the like often use the flow control lines such as DTR and CTS for non-standard purposes. They may not work if they are timing critical or transitions are required in between a sequence of data. I've encountered several devices like that, mainly older designs from when RS232 was more popular and always implemented as a standard UART.
Technically the USB driver stack also introduces some additional overhead and can cause some issues with old DOS applications. But neither of those is much of an issue with modern PCs and operating systems.
$begingroup$Unlike USB to Parallel Port, which are really often usb to ltp printers adaptors only, Usb to Rs232 adaptors are fairly consistent in how they work and how well. Never had an issue with one on a variety of devices, but that's just anecdotal evidence.
That said, the brand of the adaptor itself rarely matters, for the same reason they work so well. It's the IC that the adaptors use that matter. While there are some obscure or in-house made ones, the majority at this point are based on 3 ICs:
- Prolific PL2302 (Personally, easiest to use for embedded hacking)
- FTDI FT232
- Silicon Laboratories CP2101
And the various new revisions of each chip as well. You can find these ics in any given usb to serial adaptor, and there is full drivers for Windows/OSX/Linux. And each is often paired with a Max232 or similar level shifter for rs232 12v logic support, or otherwise has ttl or cmos level outputs (3.3v vs 5v)
So finding a good adaptor requires that you know what signal level you need (12v/5v/3.3v), and pretty much that is it.