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USB - Serial Difference

heroldherold Posts: 66
edited 2005-06-03 22:27 in General Discussion
I have the board of education with the BS2px chip on it.

Is the USB 2.0 transfer faster than the fastest serial connection? It looks like that in the PC the driver converts the USB signals into serial signals. At least I think the driver is doing this.

Also in my Realbasic program I can only access serial ports no USB ports. Can you access·the USB port directly from a PC programming language? Would that be faster?

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  • Jon WilliamsJon Williams Posts: 6,491
    edited 2005-06-03 22:27
    If you installed the FTDI driver required by the USB BOE then you should be able to access·the port·with RB -- I've done it with VB.· The whole idea behind the VCP (virtual comm port) driver is to make it "look" like a comm port to software that need those ports.

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