Power for USB Host

Joe Pfeiffer jjpfeifferjr at comcast.net
Sun Jan 21 14:44:22 CET 2007


Mikko Rauhala writes:
>la, 2007-01-20 kello 23:25 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer kirjoitti:
>> Simon writes:
>> >keep in mind, you'll only get USB 1.1 speeds :(
>> 
>> Unfortunate, but I'll take it.  Actually, I'm curious as to why that
>> decision was made...  but I'll take it.
>
>It's been mentioned here before; the SoC handles the USB, and it's only
>capable of 1.1. As to why not a spiffier SoC, well, I just assume
>keeping the costs reasonable has something to do with it :]

Ah, I'd missed that earlier comment.  Having built a couple of devices
around ST7 microes before (which also only supports 1.1), I should
have anticipated it.




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