From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 09:02:25 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Interfacing Ada With Full Runtime Directly to Electronic Chips Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 10:02:25 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <9ca07b79-db85-4d4a-b082-61cd75fcc1c8@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.179.228 X-Trace: sv3-KEoPlsAWzvg6Iol6sWrYbSUx1HugH/Xl+5+jX1zyO/LBD8nZ1RyqNOwt+8dYHdfWfeC22uH+uAlg75g!9QWNcN9XQOnfqVPH668Z9OD5DYryORIGaxSGYBJY/6MlsPKkB8y/48NnEGt1uweaB5keyFOMG7ng!uvtM7gemsg2ADTUdg5CYJAKjZufX X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1734 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32997 Date: 2017-01-02T10:02:25-05:00 List-Id: On Sun, 1 Jan 2017 18:42:04 -0800 (PST), patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org declaimed the following: > >Has anyone interfaced directly with chips via SPI or IC2 via a GPIO PCI card or GPIO-USB adapter ? > Off hand, I'm fairly certain a simple USB to GPIO adapter won't do. Too many timing idiosyncrasies for those protocols. The adapter would have to have SPI or I2C (?) protocol logic at the far end, and the USB would be transferring already processed protocol transfers. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/