[En-Nut-Discussion] USB support?

danny-cvs danny at acronexus.com
Thu Mar 20 03:50:55 CET 2003


I ckecked FT245BM, it is a USB device and use B-type connector, however, I
want ethernut has USB host/hub function which can connect to USB device such
as USB disk.

----- Original Message -----
From: <ethernut at pjelliot.com>
To: <en-nut-discussion at egnite.de>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [En-Nut-Discussion] USB support?


> Hello danny,
>
> Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 1:38:30 AM, you wrote:
>
> dc> Does any idea about Ethernut + USB controller?
> dc> Atmel has AVR+USB controller, but its flash is 64K only. so I want to
use Mega128 + USB.
>
> Check out the FDTI FT245BM USB FIFO chip at http://www.ftdichip.com/
>
> This uses 8 data lines and a couple of status lines to create a byte
> wide stream of data between the micro and the host PC. It can hit 3MB
> per second. There are a number of manufacturers making small chip
> 24-pin chip sized modules using this chip such as DLPDesign
> (www.dlpdesign.com).
>
> Using this module (or implementing it on another PCB) would only
> require a small amount off address decoding and a couple of discrete
> inputs to check the FIFO status lines.
>
> Hope this is of help,
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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