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> Planned pricing is $3.95 each in quantities of 10,000
Very cool.
> The TI product also uses a firmware-based solution,
> which means it has an embedded microcontroller. The
> firmware allows the final manufacturer to compensate
> for the ATI/ATAPI spec and all its variations. There
> are many inconsistencies in the spec that results in
> ATAPI devices that vary from the spec. TI believes
> that the best way to deal with those variations is
> to have a programmable solution based on firmware.
> Some competitive solutions don’t use a programmable
> device -- they have a state machine and that doesn’t
> provide the same flexibility.
I imagine they cannot duplicate Pio results when using Dma. For example, whether -x
"12 0 0 0 05 0" -i x10 // Inquiry for 5 copies in 5, or 6, or some other number of
bytes may vary.
Pat LaVarre
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Subject: [t13] USB v2.0 to ATA/ATAPI Bridge
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Texas Instruments Crosses USB v2.0 to ATA/ATAPI Bridge
http://newsletter.chipcenter.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eJHX0CpFC60Bbs0BjlO0A8
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