[Coco] Coco USB port?

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Mon Sep 6 12:01:19 EDT 2004



Microchip make a series of PIC chips which implement the low speed USB
standard. IMO one could be connected via the bus to any of a number of 8 bit
systems to provide USB support.

Neil

PIC18F2455
PIC18F2550
PIC18F4455
PIC16C745
PIC16C765


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug at optushome.com.au>


> James Dessart wrote:
>
> > It's possible, but it would take quite a bit of doing.
>
> James is right - a USB host is no small doing. Aside from the hardware,
> there's quite a bit of software involved in the controller - just look at
> the linux source and you'll get a feel for what's involved!
>
> We'll just wait for your ethernet controller James - and the SMB stack
> you'll no doubt be implementing for it! ;)




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