microcontroller for USB docking station

Depends what your docking station is doing!

You may just need a bunch of wires to connect the device being docked to a USB cable, you may need to put a USB device in there or evevn a USB hub chip.

As there are more types of docking stations than flavours of ice cream som e more information is needed to know what the docking station has to do and what functionality and I/O is available on the device being docked.

Hi,

Carpenter, Thanks for ur reply.

My USB docking station would be a high speed docking station with multimedia support. It would have serial, parallel port, number of USB ports, ethernet port, VGA port and ps2. I am tring to find a chip for USB hub(now i have found one IC) and other chips or ICs which would enable me to add all these ports and try to make a hardware board for the USB docking station. Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

S45

Atmel AT32AP7000

• USB Device High Speed

• serial 4 ports

• parallel port Bus interface may need a CPLD

• number of USBports Use external HUB

• ethernet port 10/100 Mbit

• VGA port LCD controller can be connected to external LCD->VGA

• ps/2 2 ports

If you want a PC on a small card (Single Board Computer - SBC) why don't you just get one and a USB hub.

Try looking at PC104 formats, maing a PC104 card with USB hub and other parts on would be relatively easy.

Anyway for a multimedia docking station, what is going to make it better than an existing PC or other devices?

Thanks for ur replies

I have a small board containing a processor, which supports VGA output. The board has a USB input (2 pin) and VGA output. I wish to connect a USB hub controller (for example 1:7 hub) to that small board (VGA processor board) through one of the USB outputs. The rest 6 ports of the USB hub controller I wish to connect to serial, parallel, audio, ps2, Ethernet and USB ports as output. I am looking for readymade boards containing processor(s), which can do these functions. Any suggestions? The final hardware would be a USB docking station board using the given VGA processor (mandatory) for me. Thanks

Paul Carpenter wrote:

Thanks for ur replies.

I have a small board containing a processor, which supports VGA output. The board has a USB input (2 pin) and VGA output.

I wish to connect a USB hub controller (for example 1:7 hub) to that small board (VGA processor board) through one of the USB outputs. The rest 6 ports of the USB hub controller I wish to connect to serial, parallel, audio, ps2, Ethernet and USB ports as output. The USB hub controller itself is connected from PC/Laptop thru a single USB communication. Is it possible that I can get any readymade board containing processor(s), which can do these functions(6 port outputs) and can be connected to the VGA processor board thru USB.

Any suggestions?

I wish to make this hardware as ready to use without any software/driver development. The final hardware would function as an USB docking station (containing the VGA processor board and the needed board(s)). How shall I proceed?

Thanks

A few question please.

Is this an off the shelf board ? Where did you get it ?

USB input 2-pin ???? What does this mean ?? Is this a USB master or slave ??

Thanks

donald

Hi,

Yes its an off the shelf board containing the graphics decoder chip.

Its just a USB. I meant 2 pin omitting the Vbus and GND.

Thanks

D> > Thanks for ur replies.

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The STK1000 evaluation kit for the AP7000 will, when connected to a USB hub do what you want (except for the parallel port where you need some extra logic).