‘Ohci’

An Electronicstalk guide

Start with the news release Evatronix launches embedded hub controller from Evatronix, which we summarised at the time by saying "Evatronix has announced the USBHS-Hub - a high-speed USB embedded hub controller to support the full range of USB host applications. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Mezzanine has a long (solid-state) memory from ACT/Technico: "The Flash PMCStor consumes less than 5W of power in operating mode and will fit single-board computers and carrier boards for CompactPCI, VME, VXS and VPX.".

In May 2007, we covered the news from Computer Solutions - take a look at USB drivers are made for embedded systems which says: "Driver software offers easy interfacing between embedded systems and the Universal Serial Bus.".

Take a look also at the news release from Jungo, USB software stacks run on ARM microcontrollers, as well as Single-chip bridge saves space in handheld devices from Oxford Semiconductor, and FireWire devices cut design challenges from Texas Instruments (April 2006-).

Latest stories...

USB stacks are certified for real-time operation (September 2005)

eCosCentric-certified ports of Jungo's embedded USB software stacks are now available for eCosCentric's range of eCosPro developer's kits.

Licence cuts the cost of soft core development (August 2005)

A low cost software development licence is now available for the PrKernelv4 real-time operating system, specifically designed for Nios II soft-core processors on Altera's FPGAs.

TCP/IP protocol stack comes with free RTOS (August 2005)

Users of Altera's Nios II soft core who purchase eSol's PrConnect2 embedded re-entrant TCP/IP protocol stack can now get the PrKernelv4 RTOS for free.

USB mezzanine card is RoHS compliant (August 2005)

New from BVM is a five-port conduction cooled USB controller module for 32bit CompactPCI and VMEbus systems.

Acquisition board synchronises multiple cameras (August 2005)

Engineers building machine vision systems now can trigger and synchronise multiple IEEE1394 cameras with no additional digital I/O or custom circuitry using the new PCI-8254R image acquisition board.

USB drivers run on embedded real-time designs (May 2005)

Available now from Nohau UK, RTXCusb is a suite of stacks and class drivers for full- and high-speed USB implementations from Quadros Systems.

ARM9-based microcontroller stakes its claim (February 2005)

Leveraging its early commitment and expertise in 90nm technology, Philips has released the industry's first 90nm ARM9 family-based 32bit microcontroller family.

Speedy route to Bluetooth integration (October 2004)

The 90191 Bluetooth module from SMART Modular Technologies reduces development time by enabling Bluetooth functionality in low to medium volumes of new or existing product designs.