Serial Communication Protocols and Standards

Data communication standards are comprised of two components: The "protocol" and "Signal/data/port specifications for the devices involved". The protocol describes the format of the message and the meaning of each part of the message. To connect any device to the bus, an external device must be used as an interface which will put the message in a form which fulfills all the electrical specifications of the port. These specifications are called the "Standard". The most famous such serial communication standard is the RS-232.
In IT technology, Communication can be serial or parallel. Serial communication is used for transmitting data over long distances. It is much cheaper to run the single core cable needed for serial communication over a long distance than the multicore cables that would be needed for parallel communication. It is the same in wireless communication: Serial communication needs one channel while parallel needs multichannel. Serial Communication can also be classified in many other ways, for example synchronous and asynchronous; it can also be classified as simplex, duplex and half duplex.

Because of the wide spread of serial communication from home automation to sensor and controller networks, there is a need for a very large number of serial communication standards and protocols. These have been developed over recent decades and range from the simple to the highly complicated. This large number of protocols was necessary to guarantee the optimum performance for the targeted applications. It is important for communication engineers to have enough knowledge to match the right protocol and standard with the right application. The main aim of this book is to provide the reader with that knowledge
The book also provides the reader with detailed information about:
- Serial Communication
- Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART)
- Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (USART
- Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
- eSPI
- Universal Serial Bus (USB)
- Wi-Fi
- WiMax
- Insteon
The details of each technology including specification, operation, security related matters, and many other topics are covered.
The book allocates three chapters to the main communication standards. These chapters cover everything related to the most famous standard RS-232 and all its variants.
Other protocols such as: I2C, CAN, ZigBee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth, and others, are the subject of the authors separate book "Microcontroller and Smart Home Networks".

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Serial Communication Protocols and Standards

About the author

Prof. Dawoud Shenouda Dawoud has a BSc (1965) and MSc (1969) from Cairo University in Communication Engineering. He completed his PhD in Russia in 1973 in the field of Computer hardware where he succeeded to own 3 Patents in the field of designing new types of memory which was the beginning of the FPGAs. In 1984, he was promoted to full Professor at the Egyptian Academy of Science and Technology, National Electronic Research Institute. During the period from 1973 to 1990, he supervised more than 5 PhDs and 15 MSc degrees all of them focused in the fields of computer and embedded system designs. During the period from 1990-1999 he established the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Botswana. During this period he supervised 3 PhDs and 7 MSc degrees. In the year 2000 he became Professor of Computer Engineering and Head of the Computer Engineering Department at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa. For 10 years he was supervising research in the field of Security of Mobile Ad hoc Networks. He supervised 2 PhDs and many MSc degrees in this field and published more than 30 papers. At the same period, he was visiting the National University of Rwanda to run an MSc program in Communication. He supervised about 15 MSc students during these 4 years before moving to the National University of Rwanda in 2010 to become the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
In 2011 he moved to Uganda where he became the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the International University of East Africa (IUEA), where he currently remains. During this time, he also served as the Vice Chancellor of IUEA, for a period of 3 years.
Across his career, he has published over 200 Journal and Conference papers, as well as books in the fields of computer engineering, microcon- troller system design, embedded system design and Security of Mobil Ad hoc Networks.

Product details

• Authors: Dawoud Shenouda Dawoud, Peter Dawoud
• Publisher: River Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9788770221542
• ISBN: 978-87-7022-154-2
• No. of pages: 532
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 962 g
• Series: River Publishers Communication
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering