[Elecraft] How 'bout a USB interface?

[Bill Coleman]

On 7/16/02 10:00 PM, Jessie Oberreuter at joberreu@moselle.com wrote:

>    The encode/decode process is essentially what a driver does. Also
>remember that USB is fundamentally a shared high-speed serial port.  The PC
>chipsets just make it look like a PCI bus.
>     If you are looking to write software, the approach should be to
>define something like an "OpenRadio" interface standard (didn't I see a
>call for this in QST or QEX a few years back?).  This frees application
>writers from the intricacies of the various hardware interfaces, and
>provides driver writers with the motivation to implement drivers for
>available real world radio and physical interfaces.

The whole point is that USB provides the infrastructure for creating just 
these kind of driver interfaces.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
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