I read an article over the weekend in the May Computer Design about USB: "To USB, or not to USB." It mentions several chips that are available including the Lucent USS720 which a friend of mine had a large part in developing. It's actually a tiny ASIC rather than big one. Chris -----Original Message----- From: ranguelo@informatik.hu-berlin.de [SMTP:ranguelo@INFORMATIK.HU-BERLIN.DE] Sent: Monday, May 19, 1997 2:44 PM To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Universal Serial Bus and PIC Devices implementing USB have to provide functionality for a HUB, Plug&Play, isocronus transver and and and ... IMHO the best way to use it is to get a Microcontroller with USB implementet in HW, or design a big ASIC for it ... Software seems also to be more complex then for RS232 ... Attachment converted: wonderland:WINMAIL.DAT (????/----) (00002E6E)