Re: [avr-gcc-list] using the 43USB355 (was - Using IAR compile d lib with GCC?)

[Tim Lapawa]

Hello,

it is not necessary to get the source of the hubs firmware. I would be pleased 
with a 
library for the GCC.
With it I could start building the firmware for my actual project.
For easy entrance to the library a good example project would be great. 
The documentation delivered with the SDK is scanty. It is hard for me to find 
out 
how all these descriptor structs and global data pointers fit together.  Since 
the mentioned 
table numbers from the source comments are from the older USB specifications.

I do not need the hub functionality at the first phase of my project. 
Perhaps you could build a closed source library for the GCC. And we all would be
able to start with our projects. At least for the devices 320  and 355.

Greetings
        Tim Lapawa

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:14:56AM -0700, Keith Gudger wrote:
> Bryan:
> 
> I'll get to work on the boss & code (in that order :).  
> 
> What (we think) is nice about our current crop of AVR / USB devices is
> that a lot of what others do in hardware is left to firmware.  That gives
> us a lot more flexability.  In my chats with other USB chip/firmware
> developers, I hear some amazing horror stories about what you cannot /
> have to do when most of the stuff is in hardware.  I'm sure the
> participants on this list can appreciate this...
> 
> There are 2 components of the firmware:  hardware configuration and USB
> interrupt / response routines.  Configuring the hardware is easy.  All of
> the many interrupt routines to satisfy the USB requirements - that's a lot
> of effort.  The code must pass chapter 9 (and chapter 11 for the hub).  To
> save code space, our library uses the same routines for the hub and the 
> function.  That's why there isn't a separate hub and function library.  We
> put a lot of effort into using pointers and structures so that we could
> reuse the code.
> 
> BTW, if you crack open an x-box controller, you'll find the AT43USB355.
> Winning that design required a bulletproof library.  That's partly why we
> say the USB libraries have been thoroughly checked out.
> 
> Keith
> 

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