> From: Ralf Sigmund > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Universal Serial Bus with a PIC? > Date: Sunday, 18 May 1997 22:50 > Most people will have USB for free sooner or later as it is build into > any Motherboard sold today anyway. (That makes a huge market for If you're really lucky, they will have brought it out to a connector on the MB, instead of leaving it on the VLSI chip :( > professional projects) > You would not run out of PC interrupt lines, as you do, if you put RS232 > cards into Your PC. > I guess the hardest thing is, that on the Computer side there are no I would think a good project for a PIC would be a USB -> RS232 converter, given that most modems, programmers etc on the market today are rs232 based (or USB -> parallel - or both) > software equivalents to terminal programs which let you access the USB > in an easy way? Wait for Windows97, which supposedly has USB support, like 95 has RAS support. (And how long will we wait for Win97, Billy G?) > The obvious disadvantage to ethernet would be, that your hardware still > cannot be accessed directly from any PC in a network. Urr, that depends on the protocols, doesn't it? Personally, I think that anything other than the top-end PIC 17xx's would be stuffed trying to do it, and it'd probably be easier doing it on a 80x86 SBC system, where the code already exists for it. MikeS