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Introduction
Universal Serial Bus (USB) port technology has emerged in response to the proliferation of external
peripheral devices (scanner, digital camera, portable hard-disk drive, cell phone, PDA, MP3 player,
etc.) that are increasingly being connected to the latest generation of PCs. The USB behaves in a
similar fashion to conventional bus ports like Serial (COM), Parallel and PS/2. As it doesn’t require
any IRQs, more devices can be attached to the system without conflicts.
This USB to Serial converter provides an external plug-and-play connection for RS-232 enabled
devices with PC or any computerizing devices that support the USB specification. The converter
comes with the standard connectors of Serial DB-25 or DB-9 and USB Type A or B to fulfill your
working requirements. With the link of USB to Serial cable, communication starts interacting
without any barriers.
For further convenience, this product is designed to work by using the power drawn from the
Universal Serial Bus and no external power is required. As it is an USB compliant device, features
of plug and play, hot-swapping, energy-saving suspend, and resume are provided.
Since the most computers have limited USB and COM ports, USB hubs can be employed to gain
more USB ports for numerous USB peripheral devices to be connected up with your PC at the time.
System Requirements
Windows : 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 2003 / 2008 / 2008R2
WinCE : V4.2 ~ V7.0
Mac OS : 8.x / 9.x / 10.x
Linux : Kernel 1.5.0 or above
The system is equipped with USB Host Controller
Features
Achieving RS-232 interfaced devices communicate with your PC through USB port
Each port can be independently configured into various synchronous and asynchronous
interfaces
Supports default ROM or external EEPROM for device configuration
Supports plug & play and hot-swapping
Over 1Mbps transfer rate per port
