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18 years ago

communicating DE2 board with host computer

I am doing a project in DE2 board. I have designed a hardware in DE2 board and the application runs in C on the host computer. Time to time I have to send some data to PC and PC uses that data to fin...
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18 years ago

The Philips USB controller isn't among the USB interfaces I used up to now. It could be, that complete examples with drivers are available from Philps/NXP support. A common method is to use device class, that is supported by a generic Windows driver. HID (human interface device, for devices as mouse, joystick etc.) e.g. is very simple, but only suitable for small data amount. CDC (communications device class, for serial ports, modems) is generally more suitable, but means some more effort on the device side. Or write your own driver, either with Windows DDK or with products as Jungo WinDriver.