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Monitor 213: Reading data over an I2C bus - Windmill Software

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The I2C bus was developed by Philips Semiconductors. It was designed to provide communicaitons between integrated circuits, though now it's used in many other applications.

I2C uses just two wires: the clock wire (called SCL) and the data wire (called SDA).

All devices on the I2C bus are either a master or slave. There is generally just one master...

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RS232 Software Driver | Windmill Software

Interface most Instruments with RS232 Ports

Windmill supports both those instruments that continuously output data values as though to a printer, and those that require a command message each time data values are needed.

With a flexible approach to building command strings, and parsing the received data strings to extract data values, the majority of analytical instruments are supported. These...

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