Instruments as USB Host

Hi pete,

you could try the microchip USB development board   £42 from Farnell 162-1787

The PIC32 USB Starter Board provides
the easiest and lowest cost method to
experience the USB On-The-Go family
of PIC32 microcontrollers. Users can develop USB embedded host, device, dual-role, or On-The-Go applications by
combining this board with free USB software (On-The-Go
support provided in a future software release). The kit
includes the PIC32 USB Starter Board, a standard A to mini B
cable for debugger & a standard A to micro B cable for USB
application development.

cheers

simon

Hi Simon,

I removed the duplicate posts. We are aware of the bug and are trying to get a fix for it.

Thanks,

Christy Zurcher

Community Manager

You could also have a look at the VNC1L (a FTDI chip). It contains the firmware for USB Host, USB slave and USB OTG and has it's own protocol to communicatie using serial, SPI etc.

Farnell has easy testmodules called the VDIP1 partnr 1329313.

What microcontroller do you use?

In my case I am trying to interface it to a ATMEGA128 controller using SPI.

Pete,

AD has it's own USB solution for Blackfin. They also have dev kits with support for that. I do not know it they also support host or OTG functionality. It could help to use their out of the box solutions saving you dev time.

If you need to link to a PC, I would walk away from the supplied driver solution (AD has a windows driver you can supply to support your product). One of my clients has a lot of problems in the field regarding stability, and my suspect is the AD driver.

Hope this helps.

Benno