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Originally Posted by wasyoungonce
But that said if you experience in writing firmware and drivers it wouldn't be any trouble for you. You could probably use iOptron's firmware/drivers for your project.  |
I'm not sure what you mean. You plug a USB cable from the PC to a CP2102 board, install the manufacturer's (SiLab's) drivers for the CP2102 chip and away you go - treating the USB link as a regular COM port.
The programs that use the port are none the wiser about USB being involved. They don't have to configure it, change its firmware nor have their own custom drivers. It's one of the easiest and transparent comms links you could ever set up.
I'm not sure the iOptron drivers/firmware will be of any use as I don't actually have any of their hardware or hand-controllers to run it on.
Sounds like the problems you're hearing about might have more to do with the rest of the mount hardware rather than the CP2102? For example, if you have a microcontroller behind it that doesn't have a good serial-friendly crystal value (i.e. divisible to a baud rate), then there can be error thresholds involved at specific baud rates.