Dear Dirk - Your thesis looks very interesting. I am working on a very similar problem, connecting a CMOS imager to a Linux computer via a USB port. I would love to comare notes about your findings. I have successfully (more or less) connected the imager chip (which has since become obsolete, a common fate among CMOS image chips) using a BF535 DSP chip produced by ADI (Analog Devices, Inc). There are a few difficulties that I have found:
1) The stock emulator and development tools run about 10,000 dollars, US. That may be a bit steep for a thesis budget. 2) The emulator environment only runs on Windoze, which is icky for most Linux guys. 3) The stock example board produced by ADI does not include access to the USB port, and the chip is a ball grid array (ie, you're out of luck if you wish to jumper the pins). That means that you have to make a custom board, unhappy. The BF535 has a built-in USB port, but alas does not have a parallel port to import the picture signal emitted from most imaging chips. There may be an easy workaround using the memory bus. The Blackfin family (which includes the BF535) includes varieties which have the required parallel port, but does not have the USB port. Interestingly, I have read recently of a uCLinux port to the Blackfin core instruction set, but have not had the time to properly investigate. I hope this helps. eman. Hello everybody, My name is Dirk, I just started doing a diploma thesis about "Connection of an astronomical CCD camera to a linux computer via USB" The CCD puts out the data in a given digital format at a given clock rate. I"m asked to install a mircocontroller (with build in USB support) taking the data and sending it via USB to a PC runnig linux and to write a driver storing the data in a given format. From this two questions arise: 1) Has anybody got any experience with any spezific microcontroller with with USB support. 2) I need literature about the Linux USB subsystem. (I allready got Universal Serial Bus Development for Linux by G. Acher & D. Fliegl) Yours Dirk Huenniger ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
