USB and AHB

USB Pen drive = USB Device = Slave. => you have to control it with a USB HOST IP => this IP should be integrated on the AHB Bus as a ....Slave

To do list :

- integrate the USBHOSTSLAVE IP , host part , ( available at opencores.org ) . This IP is Wishbone Slave => simple WB AHB Bridge to be written (or maybe exists somewhere)

- add a USB PHY on your board (1 PHY IC is advised in the usbhostlave design package)

- make some tests (basic USB cmds => look in the USBHOSTSLAVE doc)

- go ahead (SW, driver,etc....) You should make preliminary tests in simulation with a Slave USB model

Unless you want to implement a lot of buffer memory on the device, it's probably more useful to integrate a DMA controller into the USB block and run it as a AHB master.

But otherwise, yes, it could be a AHB slave.

Yes. There would be no point having the USB device, unless you can move data to and from it.

USB pen drives are simpler devices and unlikely to use a ARM processor. A typical ARM-with-USB-device application would be a MP3 player, like the iPod.

A software stack on the processor would then use the USB device to implement the mass storage protocol.

Kind regards,

Iwo

Thanks a lot for your replies and clarifications...

so let me summarize what i have understood.

suppose i have a usb device with dma controller integrated that can sit on ahb bus as a master and slave can be some memory device or if it doesn't have any dma inside it it is still a slave and only host controller can be master on it (with ahb interface) right ?

->>>>>> integrate the USBHOSTSLAVE IP , host part , ( available at o>>>>>>pencores.org ) . This IP is Wishbone Slave

Well in this above case let us think usb device is a slave then usb host ip has to be master right ? , are u saying some hoscontroller or some cpu which will be driving this "slave host ip" ???? on the bus..so host ip acts as both master and slave ?

Regards

device, unless you

drives are simpler devices and unlikely to use

Not exactly : i meant USB Host is slave on AMBA Bus and is connected to the USB Device via USB Cable , through a PHY (transceiver circuit) To control the USB device, "you" have to be Master on the AMBA Bus and access the memory range affected to the "USB Host AMBA Slave " (sic!) which in turn will control the USB Slave with USB Cmds.

AMBA USB USB MASTER HOST IP **** PHY ***USB Cable********* DEVICE | | | | ==== AMBA BUS =========

thank you for that,so as i said im new..i may be having silly doubts. so here it goes .let us think im connecting my camera to the computer to download some stuff to the computer. here my camera is a slave to computer.from outside world may be because of its size or something. but let us think camera has dma controller so dma of host device (camera) will be master and will control the so called host ip (usb host's memory) as a ahb master here host is a slave. if above case is correct. i got it..and i am asking about the other case..in what cases other than dma transfers (in this case it is host ) the devices will be as a USB slave and what kind of Master it needs ?? what will be the master. ??

regards