On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Matt Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > inside the radio.... Not to mention the exercise in writing drivers > alone is herculean.
Not if you use the FTDI parts. *They* write the system driver, and supply a complete driver package for 32 and 64 bit Windows. All the application programmer needs to do is interface with it via an easy to use .dll. The latest driver packages from FTDI are even signed. Here at work I've used FTDI parts to embed a USB device ports in our gadgets (including UHF radio receivers) for years now without any heartburn. FTDI will even allow you to customize the driver package (to "brand" the USB driver with your own company name and tailor it to your company's own USB vendor and product IDs) and get it re-signed by Windows Hardware Quality Labs (Winqual) under the "DUA" program. I did this for our latest product family and it only required an expenditure of 99 bucks for a Verisign Organizational Certificate (for signing purposes) and some of my time to navigate the admittedly arcane DUA submission process at Winqual. Bob NW8L ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
