On Wednesday 03 January 2007 23:27, Dieter wrote: > > What about one of FTDI's USB - FIFO converters? (or USB-UART) > > the FIFO ones have > > "Data transfer rate to 1 Megabyte / second - D2XX Direct Drivers." > > or > > "Data transfer rate to 300 kilobyte / second - VCP Drivers." > > I am not quite sure what D2XX or VCP means, but you can get D2XX > > for Mac OS X, Linux, etc. > > VCP = Virtual COM Port driver > D2XX drivers allow direct access to the USB device through a DLL. > (No, they don't seem to explain what a "DLL" is.)
Dynamic Link Library, the Windows equivalent of a shared library. So you get a driver plus a special client side library for talking to it. Lourens
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