FTDI released Vinculo, an embedded development platform inspired by the popular Arduino Duemilanove/Uno.
The Vinculo platform allows designers to integrate USB 2.0 interfacing by incorporating FTDI’s Vinculum II VNC2-64 dual-channel host/slave controller with the capability of interfacing to the growing range of I/O application boards developed by the Arduino open-source community. The VNC2 combines a 16-bit/48 MHz CPU core, 256 KBytes of Flash memory and 16 KBytes of SRAM memory and provides support for external UART, FIFO, PWM, GPIO and SPI slave/master interfaces.
The Vinculo module integrates an 8-channel, 10-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and supports 38 general-purpose input/output (GPIO) connections and USB A and mini B (host and device) connectors on a board measuring just 55,38 x 68,58 mm. The onboard ADC simplifies connection to sensors, actuators and other analog devices and, in conjunction with the PWM interface on the VNC2, allows Vinculo to effectively control many analog systems. Existing I/O boards can connect to the Vinculum II VNC2 via the GPIO connections.
The Vinculo programming language utilises a subset of standard ANSII ‘C’ with FTDI supported, free of charge software development tools, libraries and reference designs. The ‘Proto’ board allows designers to create their own I/O boards. LEDs, connectors and other components are provided ready for assembly onto the prototyping board (which has the same board profile as the Vinculo). Firmware can be developed using the Vinculum II development tool chain which provides an integrated development environment (IDE) including C compiler, assembler, linker and debugger tools. FTDI provides robust device class driver libraries, including USB mass storage, HID (human interface devices), printer class, image class, communication class and instrumentation. Code generated by the Vinculo tool chain and FTDI libraries are entirely royalty free for both commercial and non commercial use.
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