Mixed-signal chip maker Cygnal Integrated Products (Austin, Texas) now has available a power-managed USB-to-UART bridge chip. This IC is way cool, both literally and figuratively. Dubbed the CP2101, ...

If you want to plug a USB cable into your next project, you’ve got a problem. USB is not UART, and UART is what every microcontroller serial port wants. To add USB to your microcontroller pro… ...

“The GWU2X family enables conversion between USB and four peripheral interfaces: JTAG, SPI, I 2 C and GPIO; while the GWU2U series is suitable for conversion between USB and UART,” according to ...