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From: "Francis Belliveau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
So until there is a better generic communications standard, I say that the
serial port is still the best choice for a small non-computer company like
Elecraft. Users only need to know which port they have attached their
Right on. That's how USB connectivity was incorporated into our latest
product line. The FTDI part interfaces with a UART on the
microcontroller on one side, and a normal USB host port on the PC.
FTDI furnishes a USB driver and an application level DLL which our PC
hosted control software calls in
Most small-volume projects I've seen just use the FTDI USB to serial
interface. Basically it moves the USB-to-serial interface into the
project.
Not real sure if it's hard to use, but check out the WinKey USB to see
an example. I also have a PIC programmer that uses the same chip. The
serial work
Fran brought out some good points. Thanks you Fran. I'd like to take it a bit
deeper.
Technically Elecraft could develop a set of USB based rig control semantics
that allowed end user
programs (loggers or just simple rig controllers) to use the Windows native HID
(Human Interface
Device) U
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