Olin,=20

My experience with the FTDI FT245 has been very good. EASY to get up
and running and quite fast -- in fact, the PIC will definitely be you=
r
bandwidth limitation. There are also a couple vendors (DLP Design and
Dontronics) that sell prototype boards (around $30 or so) with all
required interface circuitry that bring out the necessary signals to =
a
0.1" lead pattern. I got started this way and was up and running very
quickly.

Another serious consideration is that with the FTDI chips, they provi=
de
a virtual COM driver for free. They also provide an API driver librar=
y
if you want to write low level stuff on the Host side.

Good stuff and highly recommended.

Matt Pobursky=20
Maximum Performance Systems=20

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:30:22 -0500, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>=A0>=A0Have you looked at the serial and parallel chips made by FTDI=
?
>=A0>=A0http://www.ftdichip.com/ They specifically deal with all the =
low
>=A0>=A0level stuff, and they work quite well for what they are. They=
 are
>=A0>=A0also very easy to get.
>=A0
>=A0
>=A0I thought they only made RS-232 chips, but I see that their paral=
lel
>=A0FIFO chip might be a good fit. =A0I'm going to go study that data
>=A0sheet.

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