Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] $89 EZ-USB 2.0 FX2 devel board

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:47:08PM -0500, David Carr wrote:
> I just found this board at http://elrasoft.hostcolor.com/hsusbm.htm
> 
> It brings out all 16 bits of the GPIF and the control lines along with
> several other signals.  With a fast host chipset this chip can move data
> at greater than 30MBytes/sec continuously.  Open source linux tools and
> programming via the USB port should make this easy to work with.  This
> board would be an excellent interface module for the a poor man's
> ($120-170) USB 2.0 10-12Msps 12bit ADC or DAC.  I've found other boards
> with this chip in for $400+ and one for $200 but the configuration of
> this board is better suited to continuous high speed transfer and its cheap.
> 
> Hopefully I'll have one to play with soon,
> -David Carr

Let us know how it goes.

You'll probably find the USRP firmware and host side code useful for
making it do something.  FYI, we use the free SDCC 8051 C compiler
for the firmware.

Eric