A USB Port by Any Other Color…
[Dr. Gough] bought a generic USB 3.0 hub on an Asian website. Surely, USB 3 is mature enough that even the cheapest hub will have some IC in it that …read more Continue reading A USB Port by Any Other Color…
Tag Archives: USB 3.0
All About USB-C: High-Speed Interfaces
One amazing thing about USB-C is its high-speed capabilities. The pinout gives you four high-speed differential pairs and a few more lower-speed pairs, which let you pump giant amounts of …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: High-Speed Interfaces
Dirty USB-C Tricks: One Port For The Price Of Two
[RichardG] has noticed a weird discrepancy – his Ryzen mainboard ought to have had fourteen USB3 ports, but somehow, only exposed thirteen of them. Unlike other mainboards in this lineup, …read more Continue reading Dirty USB-C Tricks: One Port For The Price Of Two
Scratch-Built Industrial Camera’s Modular Design Really Stacks Up
The news here isn’t so much that [Guarav Singh] built this high-quality industrial digital camera from scratch, but it’s in the way it was accomplished. That plus the amount of …read more Continue reading Scratch-Built Industrial Camera’s Modular Design Really Stacks Up
A Chip To Bridge the USB 2 – USB 3 Divide
On Twitter, [whitequark] has found and highlighted an intriguing design – a breakout board for the VL670, accompanied by an extensive yet very easy to digest write-up about its usefulness …read more Continue reading A Chip To Bridge the USB 2 – USB 3 Divide
Spite, Thrift, and the Virtues of an Affordable Logic Analyzer
[Larry Wall], the father of Perl, lists the three great virtues of all programmers: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. After seeing that Saleae jacked up the prices on their popular logic analyzers to ludicrous levels, [CNLohr] added a fourth virtue: Spite. And since his tests with a Cypress FX3 over the last few days may lead to a dirt-cheap DIY logic analyzer, we may soon be able to add another virtue: Thrift.
The story begins a year or two ago when [CNLohr] got a Cypress FX3 development board for $45. The board sat unused for want of a Windows machine, but …read more
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The Breadboard RF103
When [ik1xpv] sets out to build a software-defined radio (SDR), he doesn’t fool around. His Breadboard RF103 sports USB 3.0, and 16-bit A/D converter that can sample up to 105 Msps, and can receive from 0 to 1800 MHz. Not bad. Thanks to the USB 3.0 port, all the signal processing occurs in the PC without the limitations of feeding data through a common sound port. You can see the device in action in the video below.
The Cypress FX3 USB device is an ARM processor, but it is only streaming data, not processing it. You can find the slightly …read more
