Archive for December, 2009

Increasing your FTDI Chip’s Efficiency

Friday, December 25th, 2009

When you are using a USB serial port based on the popular 232BM FTDI chip set, there are some things you can do to make your transfer of data faster and prevent the loss of transferred data. Since the serial device uses USB bus bulk transfers, the time that data ...

Creating a USB Driver with a Toolkit

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

There are two software packages that allow you to quickly create a USB driver by automating lot of the work for you as much as possible. They are from Jungo and Compuware NuMega. One thing to note is the USB toolkit software seems to take two different routes in ...

Dual Monitor Video Card

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

If you’re like me, you going to want to have more video desktop space at certain times. Even if your computer or laptop has two video ports, sometimes just being able to add another low update rate video screen to show extra web pages or text can be very helpful. ...

USB Transfer Tutorial

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

There are two main categories of USB communication; the first is the exchange used in enumerating the device, and after that, secondly, the transfer used by applications that perform the device’s purpose. During this start up phase of USB, called enumeration, the host first finds out details about the USB ...