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| The ECB-USB-FIFO board provides a high-speed interface for an EuroCard Bus machine to talk to a modern PC over USB. The board is based around the widely supported [[http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/DataSheets/ICs/DS_FT232H.pdf|FTDI FT232H chip]] operating in “245-style asynchronous FIFO” mode. To avoid the need to solder surface-mount parts the [[https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264|Adafruit FT232H Breakout]] board is used. | The ECB-USB-FIFO board provides a high-speed interface for an EuroCard Bus machine to talk to a modern PC over USB. The board is based around the widely supported [[http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/DataSheets/ICs/DS_FT232H.pdf|FTDI FT232H chip]] operating in “245-style asynchronous FIFO” mode. To avoid the need to solder surface-mount parts the [[https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264|Adafruit FT232H Breakout]] board is used. |
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| | On a KISS-68030 using an optimised transfer routine speeds in excess of 1MByte/sec (8Mbit/sec) can be achieved. |
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| On the PC the interface is presented as a standard USB serial interface (a “Virtual COM port” on Windows, /dev/ttyUSB* on Linux) and can be used by any application normally used with standard serial ports. Note that although it presents as a serial port, the baud rate and other serial settings configured on the Virtual COM Port are ignored, it just provides an 8-bit clean path at whatever rate you can pump data in or out of it. | On the PC the interface is presented as a standard USB serial interface (a “Virtual COM port” on Windows, /dev/ttyUSB* on Linux) and can be used by any application normally used with standard serial ports. Note that although it presents as a serial port, the baud rate and other serial settings configured on the Virtual COM Port are ignored, it just provides an 8-bit clean path at whatever rate you can pump data in or out of it. |
