> I am thinking of implementing an USB host on a data
> logging device and are looking at various method of
> doing it. My final intention is to attach a pen drive
> ( which are cheaply and readily available ) to the
> data logging device and remove it after a month and
> copy whatever data stored in the pen drive to a pc.

> From information gathered on the net, it seems that
> most USB host are implemented on higher end micro
> processor. I intend to build the USB 1.1 host that
> will only access pen drive.

Take a look at the Cypress SL811HS chip.  Provides USB
host interface and hooks fairly easily to a PIC CPU.

						Lee Jones

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