Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> What is your thought on the legacy ports? What is your
> solution when you need them?
> 
> Xiaofan

Still actively using serial ports but they could just as easily be
replaced by an FTDI chip.

I have one design that uses a parallel port and I suspect it could use
one of the USB -> parallel chips just the same.

Around the time I was thinking it would be possible for me to jump into
computer-card design on the ISA bus, the ISA bus was slowly dying. Now
that I'm thinking I could get into PCI with an FPGA card, the same thing
is happening.

This time around I think I could use high speed USB
(the knjn dragon card is expensive and rarely in stock
http://www.knjn.com/board_dragon.html )

For what? you ask - I don't know, it's always some project that I don't
have time for.

-
Martin
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