Scott Murphy <murphyjs@ix.netcom.com> says...

>Have a look at www.ftdichip.com. Maybe their widget can solve your problem.

Has anyone priced these?  I usually buy QTY=1,000 for a prototype and
then satrt putting in regular QTY=100,000 to QTY=1,000,000orders once 
production starts, so those are the prive points I am interested in.

"Junior Sanders" <hsanders@hmctech.com> wrote in message news:4e63dde1.0409220432.32db373d@posting.google.com...
> "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@larwe.com> wrote in message news:<N994d.9664$mb6.4291@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
>> > I know this is probably an easy question for some of you, but here's
>> 
>> It's not an easy question. Host-side USB is very difficult to implement.
>> Yes it can be done. Trying to do it - especially inside Rabbit's
>> baroque, nonstandard environment - is very painful. I would abandon the
>> idea of USB and interface directly to a media type, e.g. CompactFlash.
> 
> The problem is that I have to be able to read data from a digital
> camera. All of the lower end Digital Cameras only have a USB
> interface. Any suggestions?

Have a look at www.ftdichip.com. Maybe their widget can solve your problem.

AT43USB380

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"Anton Erasmus" <nobody@spam.prevent.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:1095882395.gKZtUufjISJ7NkVe0DKVuw@teranews...
> On 21 Sep 2004 14:44:39 -0700, hsanders@hmctech.com (Junior Sanders)
> wrote:
>
> >I know this is probably an easy question for some of you, but here's
> >what I am trying to do:
> >
> >Use a single board computer (ie Zworld's Rabbit Processor) to read a
> >USB device such as Memory Stick or Digital Camera. The Rabbit board
> >has serial ports, but not USB port. Have any of you done anything like
> >this??
>
> The easiest to do this is to get a module / device that does most of
> the stuff for you. Atmel has a number of USB host devices which looks
> fairly easy to hook up to an embedded micro. AFACR they already
> support the profiles needed for accesing a USB flash disk or similar
> device.
>
> Regards
>    Anton Erasmus
>
>

On 21 Sep 2004 14:44:39 -0700, hsanders@hmctech.com (Junior Sanders)
wrote:

>I know this is probably an easy question for some of you, but here's
>what I am trying to do:
>
>Use a single board computer (ie Zworld's Rabbit Processor) to read a
>USB device such as Memory Stick or Digital Camera. The Rabbit board
>has serial ports, but not USB port. Have any of you done anything like
>this??

The easiest to do this is to get a module / device that does most of
the stuff for you. Atmel has a number of USB host devices which looks
fairly easy to hook up to an embedded micro. AFACR they already
support the profiles needed for accesing a USB flash disk or similar
device.

Regards
   Anton Erasmus

> The problem is that I have to be able to read data from a digital
> camera. All of the lower end Digital Cameras only have a USB
> interface. Any suggestions?

If you are talking about cameras with non-removable media (webcams,
pencams) then I've got one word for you: Fuggedaboutit. You would need
to write drivers for every single camera chipset out there. You would
need to keep updating VID/PID tables, at least, practically on a daily
basis to keep up with new product releases. The ONLY way you can
contemplate supporting those sorts of cameras is via a mainstream OS
where someone else is doing the driver work for you.

If you are talking about cameras with removable media - Support the
media directly. It's much less trouble!

Junior Sanders <hsanders@hmctech.com> wrote:

> The problem is that I have to be able to read data from a digital
> camera. All of the lower end Digital Cameras only have a USB
> interface.

So don't use those cameras, then.  Actually I don't think there are
all that many cameras around that have a USB port but no removable
storage media.  Well, setting aside dedicated webcams, that is.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

"Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@larwe.com> wrote in message news:<N994d.9664$mb6.4291@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
> > I know this is probably an easy question for some of you, but here's
> 
> It's not an easy question. Host-side USB is very difficult to implement.
> Yes it can be done. Trying to do it - especially inside Rabbit's
> baroque, nonstandard environment - is very painful. I would abandon the
> idea of USB and interface directly to a media type, e.g. CompactFlash.

The problem is that I have to be able to read data from a digital
camera. All of the lower end Digital Cameras only have a USB
interface. Any suggestions?

> I know this is probably an easy question for some of you, but here's

It's not an easy question. Host-side USB is very difficult to implement.
Yes it can be done. Trying to do it - especially inside Rabbit's
baroque, nonstandard environment - is very painful. I would abandon the
idea of USB and interface directly to a media type, e.g. CompactFlash.

I know this is probably an easy question for some of you, but here's
what I am trying to do:

Use a single board computer (ie Zworld's Rabbit Processor) to read a
USB device such as Memory Stick or Digital Camera. The Rabbit board
has serial ports, but not USB port. Have any of you done anything like
this??

Thanks in Advance,

JS