[sdiy] USB ports instead of Midi?

[Paul Maddox]

Jim,


>     I am looking at the Cypress ScanLogic chips (SL811HS to be exact).
> Anybody know of any other manufacturers of USB slave chips that are
> suitable for embedded processors?  The SL811 looks pretty cool.  But I
> seem to remember that National had one (they have probably already made
> it obsolete), and somewhere in my office I have a data sheet for the
> PDIUSBD12 from Philips.  Anybody have any pros/cons between the
> ScanLogic chip and the Philips chip?

FTDI
Their chips are superb!!
http://www.ftdichip.com

Better than that though, you can download drivers for PC/MAc for free!
AND, the have evaluation kits!
I used the DLP-USB1 with the waveterm C, parallel data, with read+write
lines
quick simple and it works!!!

Paul
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