Olin Lathrop wrote:

> Phillip Coiner wrote:
>> The next product that will require an ATE testing setup will have a
>> serial control port so I'd prefer to have a production programmer
>> that was USB so I could have the serial port of the PC free for
>> LAbview to exercise the DUT's serial port.
 
> Another solution is a USB to serial converter.  Not all of them work.  

While USB-Serial converters don't always work well with programmers, they
work fine for most "normal" serial data communication (without tight timing
specs). So you may be able to use it to exercise the DUT's serial port.

Besides, a card with a few "real" serial ports doesn't cost that much
either.

Gerhard

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