[hpsdr] [FPGA_USB] Review/Comments FPGA_USB Board - April 5, 2006

[Christopher T. Day]

Eric,

Can't beat the price, I guess. BTW, do you know anything about the LBNL
project? I work there as well, but in a different department. And I've
never had any idea of what they do at the Richmond Field Station.


	Chris - AE6VK


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blossom [mailto:eb at comsec.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 7:00 PM
To: Christopher T. Day
Cc: Lyle Johnson; Philip Covington; High Performance Software Defined
Radio Discussion List
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] [FPGA_USB] Review/Comments FPGA_USB Board - April
5, 2006

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 02:14:07PM -0700, Christopher T. Day wrote:
> 
> And one last bit. What do we intend to do about a USB VID/DID (Vendor
> ID/Device ID) pair? As Phil points out, even though the FX2 by
necessity
> will come up with one if nothing else is done, that pair belongs to
> Cypress and their manual explicitly states it is _not_ to be used for
> "production" devices. One of the I2C EEPROM's jobs is to supply a
> different one. Official IDs can be had from www.usb.org, but at a
price
> of about $2000 as far as I can see. Presumably we'd only need one VID
> for all the projects we do, but that's still a lot of money from my
> perspective.

I've "appropriated" the 0xFFFE Vendor ID (Free Software Folks) and am
acting as the "IANA" in the Jon Postel tradition for Product ID's
under that Vendor ID.

Ask and ye shall receive ;)


FYI, here's the current "database" of assignments:

#ifndef _USRP_IDS_H_
#define _USRP_IDS_H_

#define	USB_VID_CYPRESS			0x04b4
#define	USB_PID_CYPRESS_FX2		0x8613


#define	USB_VID_FSF			0xfffe	  // Free Software Folks
#define	USB_PID_FSF_EXP_0		0x0000	  // Experimental 0
#define	USB_PID_FSF_EXP_1		0x0001	  // Experimental 1
#define	USB_PID_FSF_USRP		0x0002	  // Universal Software
Radio Peripheral
#define	USB_PID_FSF_USRP_reserved	0x0003	  // Universal Software
Radio Peripheral
#define	USB_PID_FSF_SSRP		0x0004	  // Simple Software
Radio Peripheral
#define	USB_PID_FSF_SSRP_reserved	0x0005	  // Simple Software
Radio Peripheral
#define USB_PID_FSF_LBNL_UXO            0x0018    //
http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/uxo/


Eric


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