- Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:27 am
#187151
Does anybody know if there is a commercially available adapter that lets me talk to a USB device through a serial port? I work at a National Laboratory, and you would think we are on the cutting edge, but we are not. We have huge data acquisition systems that work on a flavor of UNIX and it does not support USB. It does handle serial though. I would like to purchase an instrument from Thorlabs that only works over USB, and then use a serial to USB adapter to talk to it. One would think that this is just some sort of baud rate converter since USB is still a serial protocol. If you want to know the device I want to talk to, it is on the Thorlabs website with part number PRM1Z8E.
I have used Pic microcontrollers to build my own baud rate converters before, but I have no time for this project. I'm looking to purchase off the shelf.
Thanks,
John
I have used Pic microcontrollers to build my own baud rate converters before, but I have no time for this project. I'm looking to purchase off the shelf.
Thanks,
John