Hi, On Thursday 28 January 2010 11:23:23 Adam Wang wrote: > > What would you recommend as current limiting devices? Polyswitch? > > Polyswitch is designed to protect against overcurrent. It became more > easier everywhere. You can check [1] or [2]. Placing two PPTCs > connected into individual usb-a connector.
What about placing one TYCO ELECTRONICS MICROSMD075F (in 1210 package) in series with *both* connectors ("ganged" configuration), with a current limit of roughly 1.5A (to allow a margin for non-compliant gadgets that use more than 500mA)? Looks like the simplest option to me... > > For this purpose, we can set the drive strength of the FPGA I/O to 2mA > > (there are no other devices on this I2C bus) which is even more efficient > > than the 33 ohm resistors which would limit the current to 10mA and > > requires no extra part. Of course, this assumes that the FPGA does not > > get misconfigured with a higher drive strength. > > If can let resistor value to be zero and traced to connectors as > option if one wants to add extra device via I2C later. This could > exempt from misconfiguration also make I2C extendable potentially. > Some hackers may like. For extending, I'm rather thinking of routing some spare FPGA I/Os to a dedicated connector. This way, adding I2C (or other) devices can be done without risk of interfering with the video input. Sébastien _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkym...@freenode Webchat: www.milkymist.org/irc.html Wiki: www.milkymist.org/wiki