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FTDI FT232R force flushing FIFO

Is there a way to readout continuously or force-flush the RX fifo of FTDI FT232R. I want to timestamp the received bytes and therefore want to avoid that the received bytes are being sent in chunks. I want to force the chip to sent them via USB as they arrive. Answer FT232R AFAIK, it is impossible for FT232R.…

Serial data over UART gets corrupted

I’m developing an application for a development board (Beagle Bone Black) that will send some data over UART peripheral. The developing board runs Linux Kernel (some Debian distribution, 3.8.x Linux Kernel version). For sending and receiving data over UART I use the standard UNIX API: open(), read(), an…