USB for your own hardware-with the MAX3420E

From the moment USB first hit the market, many people were unhappy about it-I mean DIY electronicians who power motors,… from their PC’s. Connecting a fan motor to the COM port for cooling spaghetti(no joke, did that once) is an easy task…

Anyways, Dallas-Maxim recently released an IC called MAX3420E. This IC is said to make USB accessable from an SPI interface with no major efforts.

The following Application notes contain further information:

APPLICATION NOTE 3637-Add USB to Anything

APPLICATION NOTE 3690-USB Enumeration Code (and More) for the MAX3420E

How do you connect your circuits to USB?

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