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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

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We are about to get a FT232H module in which we are hoping to be able to connect up to one of our current gate arrays. This chip has FIFO 245 interface!

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I haven't used that particular device - but looking at the data sheet, I agree it should work fine.

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Yes I am comfortable working with VHDL. Are you able to send me your design?

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Yeah, sure. Let me review/clean-up the documentation I'd started, and I'll post a zip file or a link to a zip file. I'll look at it tonight.

Cheers,

Dave