Here's what every different USB port type actually means

C, and USB Type-B ports are used in all sorts of devices nowadays, but they're not all made the same, and some are becoming ...

What Is A USB 'Header' (And How Is It Different From A Port)?

With the prevalence of USB devices, it's easy to mix up USB headers and ports, but the header is the motherboard pin ...

USB hit the scene 30 years ago this month - we look back on its journey to standardization success

In 1996, the first USB design (USB 1.0) hit the market, and it eventually became the industry standard - albeit with a few ...
EDN

USB adapters yield eight serial ports

The SeaLINK+8/232 RJ and the SeaLINK+8 VC USB-to-serial adapters offer eight independent serial ports, each of which appear as standard COM ports to the host computer. The devices connect RS-232 and ...
Ars Technica

USB -> serial adapters, good bad and ugly

I have a number serial of devices I need to connect to a relatively modern computer with only 1 standard serial port. The obvious solution is to grab a couple of USB->serial adapters, which I did, ...
Electronic Design

Isolated USB-To-Serial Adapters Add USB Lock

Expanding the SeaLINK USB family, the SeaLINK+I.DIN (Item# 2113) and SeaLINK+2I.DIN (Item# 2213) optically isolated USB to RS-232/-422/-485 adapters offer one or two serial ports, respectively, and ...