AVR-Chat

John Samperi wrote:
> You are SO privileged just to have a 1287!! I can't even
> get price and availability for a 1286 (or a 646) for over
> a weekso I had to revert to the good old FTDI chip and an AVR.

Hmm, then I won't tell you I also have five (5) MAX3421E samples then!

Talk to Archna at Soanar. Maybe she pulled some strings for me?

But seriously, if you want just device mode USB, and still want to 
stay with Atmel, then the ARM7 chips look quite good. I'll be very 
happy when ARM7 gets USB host-mode (have to go to ARM9 for that, and 
then that's using external flash, and expensive!). ARM7 is now very 
cheap ...

   http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=3521

BTW, I'm looking at using the 1287 in host mode, and the MAX3421E, as 
an SPI peripheral, does this. But they both suffer from real-world 
supply problems. And, as far as host-mode USB mass-storage class 
drivers go, they both suffer from a lack of example code. Atmel in 
France (Jean-Christophe) assure me however that they will release code 
(NDA) this June.  Parts mentioned can be found here ..

   http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/3639
   http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=3875

Peter.