Sunday, July 20, 2008

TUSB3410 - Serial to USB Converter

The TUSB3410 [ TI ] is a USB to UART converter based on the common Intel 8052 microcontroller. The chip includes 10KB of ROM preloaded w/ TI bootcode, 256 bytes of general purpose RAM, 16KB of RAM for loading custom firmware from the I2C bus, and 2KB of RAM for data buffers and memory mapped registers. Four pins from port 3 from the 8052 microcontroller are brought out to pins for general purpose input/output ports. Texas Instruments also includes VCP (virtual com port) software for Windows with the package to allow the device to seamlessly integrate the serial device into windows.

Texas Instruments Virtual COM Port (VCP) Driver/Firmware in conjunction with the TUSB3410 device provides a simple turnkey software solution for USB-to-serial bridge applications. The TUSB3410 can be used to implement flexible full-speed USB-to-serial bridging applications, including USB/RS232, USB/RS485, USB/IrDA, and others.

The free downloadable TUSBWINVCP software package provides a Windows WDF driver and TUSB3410 (or TUSB5052) application firmware for Windows XP and Windows Vista environments. The TUSBWINVCP software package along with the TUSB3410UARTPDK hardware tool will enable rapid evaluation of the TUSB3410 as a USB-to-RS-232 Bridge.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I am also working on same project.
Could it be possible for you to send me the firmware at kshtjgupta1991@gmail.com ?

Thanks and Regards.
Kshitij Gupta