Peripherals connector industry

RS-232-C In asynchronous transmissions, a recommended standard interface established by the Electrical Industries Association. The standard defines the specific lines, timing, and signal characteristics used between the computer and the peripheral device and uses a 25-pin or 9-pin DB connector. RS-232-C is used for serial communications between a computer and a peripheral such as a printer, modem, digitizing tablet, or mouse. 

According to Reed Electronics Research [4], the West European connector market was valued at 5 billion in 2004, rising by 1% in 2005. In geographical terms, Germany (35.1%) was the largest market, followed by France (14.8%) and the UK (12.4%). In application terms the automotive sector took the largest share (34%), followed by industrial and others (20%) and computers and peripherals (18%). 

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When a PC is used in a measurement apphcation, one of the standard interfaces available with the PC is used for transfer of measurement data to the PC. Common standard interfaces in a PC are PC bus, parallel port, serial port, and USB. Internal PC bus, parallel port, and serial port have been used in many measurement apphcations. PC buses such as Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA), NuBus, VME bus extensions for instrumentation (VXI), Versa Module Eurocard (VME), SBus, Micro Channel Architecture (MCA), and different versions of Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) buses were des ped for intercormection of computer subsystems and peripheral circuits within a computer. The buses are also made available for expansion of features of PCs, and connectors are provided on the motherboard. 

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