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 Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 10:09 PM |
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Joined: Jan 23, 2004
Posts: 9826
Location: Trondheim, Norway
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It's *possible* to do it with a FTDI or other chip, but you'd either need one with dual COM port functionality, or with user-controllable GPIO pins. However, the former would require quite a complex PC program to work, while the latter would require a complex PC program and be extremely slow.
I guess Atmel choose the USB1287 due to it being an Atmel chip, and because you can do many other things with it, like turn it into a Mass Storage device for the Dataflash. It would probably have been better if they chose the hardware USART for debugging for those that need such a high bitrate, but obviously they felt that programming speed was more important.
- Dean  |
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