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11 years ago

Send data over USB from Arrow SoCKit

In the past I've used https://github.com/mzakharo/usb-de2-fpga to send data from a DE2 to a PC over USB (mzakharo, if you ever read this, thanks for all the effort put in writing it!). How woul...
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11 years ago

I agree with what Dave said since having to move the USB software stack into the FPGA in order for it to have control over the HPS USB controller would be a lot of work. I suspect the USB device on the DE2 board provided a simple interface not requiring a USB stack to move data back and forth so that's why it was feasible to connect the USB device directly to the FPGA.