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13 years ago

USB External Chip

Has anyone had any experience with interfacing to an external (to the gate array) USB Chip ? I am looking for a simple, cheap, low power chip that interfaces directly to a NIOS or even better to Inte...
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13 years ago

The two FTDI parts suggested by dwh get my vote as they're just a (parallel) hardware interface and require no programming. The FT2232H can now hit rates of ~35MB/s using the latest driver.