Alpha Micro Offers Development Platform For FTDI USB Embedded Host - Alpha Micro Components, a leading distributor of electronic components, has launched the new FTDI DLP-VLOG, a development platform based on the FTDI Vinculum Universal Serial Bus (USB) host controller IC. The platform is designed to demonstrate how straightforward the Vinculum is to design into any product with data storage needs, without extensive USB experience. It is configured as a simple data logging application designed to read temperature, humidity and voltage data and storing it on a standard 32MB USB flash drive (supplied). The DLP-VLOG provides a complete reference design for developments using the new Vinculum as well as being a starting point for similar data logging applications.
The DLP-VLOG development kit includes a C compiler, device programmer, debugger and C source code for the microcontroller.