[Open-graphics] USB interface on the logic/bus-analyzer

Lourens Veen lourens at rainbowdesert.net
Thu Jan 4 02:16:04 EST 2007


On Wednesday 03 January 2007 23:27, Dieter wrote:
> > What about one of FTDI's USB - FIFO converters? (or USB-UART)
> > the FIFO ones have
> > "Data transfer rate to 1 Megabyte / second - D2XX Direct Drivers."
> > or
> > "Data transfer rate to 300 kilobyte / second - VCP Drivers."
> > I am not quite sure what D2XX or VCP means, but you can get D2XX
> > for Mac OS X, Linux, etc.
>
> VCP = Virtual COM Port driver
> D2XX drivers allow direct access to the USB device through a DLL.
> (No, they don't seem to explain what a "DLL" is.)

Dynamic Link Library, the Windows equivalent of a shared library. So you 
get a driver plus a special client side library for talking to it.

Lourens
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