Platforms speed USB development

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jun 18, 2003

The USBee EX family of USB development boards includes platforms to support development of both USB 2.0 High and Full Speed devices.

The USBee EX family of USB development boards includes platforms to support development of both USB 2.0 High and Full Speed devices.

Both platforms use the compact development board combined with the USBee Toolbuilder software libraries and drivers to quickly design custom USB solutions.

The USBee EX experimenter's board is the newest addition to the USBee digital test pod product family.

With USB being the dominant external PC interface, embedded designs are naturally moving to use the bus for connectivity.

Using the USBee EX experimenter's boards, every embedded application can now gain the benefits of the higher datarates (480 and 12Mbit/s), simple installation and self powered capabilities without the headaches traditionally found with USB development.

Unlike other USB development systems, the USBee EX experimenter's board combined with the included drivers and libraries is a ready-to-embed solution already optimised for size and cost, and can be transferring data in minutes, not days.

"The USBee EX experimenter's boards give engineers and hobbyists instant access to the ubiquitous USB 2.0 High and Full Speed bus", states Tim Harvey, CWAV's Chief Technical Officer, "which before took board development, firmware programming, driver development and integration." The USBee EX experimenter's boards are fully compatible with applications written around the familiar USBee Toolbuilder software frameworks used with the USBee digital test pods.

The USBee Tool Builder software allows the creation of custom interfacing and test tools using Visual Basic or C.

The software for the USBee EX experimenter's board is provided for free on the CWAV website In single units, the USBee EX 2.0 High Speed experimenter's board is priced at $199.00 and USBee EX Full Speed experimenter's board is priced at $99.

Both boards can be purchased directly from from the CWAV website and quantity and educational discounts are available.