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12 years ago

Generic driver to rest of the system communication - advice needed?

Hello all, First - I am new to VHDL but: I have built a state machine that communicates with FT245 USB chip using parallel protocol (it is very simple - 8-bit data bus, read and write str...
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12 years ago

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Here's some information on interfacing to FTDI devices ...

http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/correlator/pdf/ftdi.pdf

Cheers,

Dave

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Thanx.

Protocol itself is very simple - I did a functional proof of concept and tested in on real hardware in 1 hour.

However, there is some interesting stuff in there to check it out in terms of integrating FSM for FTDI chips into rest of the code. I will check it out.