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USB chip
- Subject: USB chip
- From: "A2Pro" <a2@wilserv.com>
- Date: 7 Oct 2006 13:10:30 -0700
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Hi!
Below my sig is an excerpt from a message posted to the CBM-hackers
list. A question for the hardware gurus on this list: would this chip
make it easy to come up with a USB interface card for the Apple II
line?
Willi
Message excerpt:
"A friend of mine recently told me about the MAX3421E from Maxim
<http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/3639>.
He ordered some samples, but the estimated delivery time is in March
2007.
Also, there are virtually no programming examples yet.
The chip implements a USB interface, and it is controlled via SPI bus.
It seems to support enough primitives to implement any USB protocol.
With some restrictions, it can even play a USB master. Possible
applications of that could be connecting a USB mouse, keyboard,
memory stick, or a USB-equipped PC to a microcontroller, which would
in turn emulate some Commodore peripheral."