The DLP-VLOG is intended as both a demonstration platform for FTDI’s new Vinculum IC and a learning tool. The development kit is designed to log temperature, humidity and voltage data to a USB Flash drive. Using the Vinculum, this system demonstrates how one can provide virtually unlimited data storage for a small microcontroller.
This system can be beneficial to electronics designers with virtually any level of technical expertise. Based on the Vinculum host controller IC and the Microchip PIC16F88 microcontroller, the DLP-VLOG can function as a digital design trainer, a microprocessor development system or as a rapid path to learning how to implement a USB host controller for interfacing a USB Flash drive to a small microcontroller.
Programming headers on the board allow for firmware updates to both the microcontroller and the Vinculum IC so that the board can be updated with additional features developed by the user, as well as firmware updates for the Vinculum.
A highly optimised C compiler from Custom Computer Services is provided with the kit that supports the microcontroller firmware. Changes made to the firmware can be debugged and reprogrammed into the microcontroller using the CCS ICD programmer/debugger module, which is also included with the kit.
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