A serial port is a serial communication interface through which information transfers in or out sequentially one bit at a time. This is in contrast to a parallel port, which communicates multiple bits
A male DE-9 connector on an IBM PC compatible computer (with serial port symbol) used for an RS-232 serial port
A female DE-9 connector on an RS-232 cable.
An IBM PC serial card with a 25-pin connector (obsolete 8-bit ISA card)
A PCI Express ×1 card with one serial port
A universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter is a peripheral device for asynchronous serial communication in which the data format and transmission speeds are configurable. It sends data bits one by
Raspberry Pi 2 connected to a laptop through a UART to USB adapter. Three wires are used: one for ground and one for data in each direction. Such a setup can be used to access the command-line interface of the Raspberry Pi running Linux from the host computer .