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Vinculum - Binding USB Technologies
Vinculum is the brand name for
the new family of USB Host
Controller ICs devices from
FTDI.
The Vinculum family of devices
allow the implementation of USB
host controller functionality within products,
thus saving development
time and costs by using FTDI's
tried and tested
firmware programmed into
internal, easily upgradeable
Flash memory.
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 NEWS - Updated
12th MARCH 2010
Vinculum II Announced
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Future Technology Devices International announces their 2nd generation of the Vinculum family USB Host / Slave controller devices. The
Vinculum-II (VNC2)
is a dual USB 2.0 system-on-chip
controller, which features a
powerful 16-bit MCU core with 256KB
Flash and 16KB RAM. The device
supports a range of flexible
interfaces including UART, SPI,
FIFO and PWM. A major enhancement
is the introduction of the new C
based Vinculum Software Development
Tool Suite, designed to support the
development of user customized
firmware for next generation USB
and peripheral controller
applications
For full details, please click
here to view the Vinculum II
page on the FTDI site.
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Vinculum Firmware
Updated
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Vinculum firmware libraries have
been updated to version 3.68.
Several bug fixes are included in
this release.
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VNC_PROG Application
Updated
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The
VNC_PROG application for use
with the VPROG1
VNC1L
programmer unit has been upgraded to
use multithreading to increase the
speed of programming multiple
devices.
The upgraded application is
available on the
downloads page.
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VPROG1 Vinculum
Programmer Available
Vinculum Firmware
Beta Versions Released
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Vinculum firmware libraries have
been updated to version 3.65.
This version has been released as a
public beta due to the inclusion of
new file system optimisations.
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Vinculum Datasheet
Update Released
V-Eval Board
Available
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FTDI are pleased to announce the
availability of the
V-Eval
Vinculum
VNC1L development board.
With a large prototyping area, the
V-Eval board provides everything
needed to develop and debug a VNC1L
based design.
Using the
VEVAL application it's easy to
send commands to the
VNC1L,
reprogram the
VNC1L firmware or debug UART
communication by using the "spy"
mode which allows analysis of data
sent to and from the
VNC1L
UART.
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Introducing the Vinculum VNC1L USB Host
Controller
FTDI VNC1L
USB Host Controller IC
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The initial product
member of the family is the VNC1L
device which features two USB Ports
which can be individually configured
by firmware as Host or Slave ports.
Connect USB Flash drives to MCUs
via the Vinculum's UART, SPI or
parallel FIFO interfaces. Connect USB
device classes including Mass
Storage Class, Printer Class and
HID Class devices, or even
FTDI's own range of
USB-UART and
USB-FIFO ICs to an embedded
system.
Key VNC1L features include:
► 8/32 bit V-MCU Core
► Dual DMA controllers for hardware acceleration
► 64k Embedded Flash Program Memory
► 4k internal Data SRAM
► 2 x USB 2.0 Slow/Full speed Host/Slave Ports
► UART, SPI and Parallel FIFO interfaces
► PS2 legacy Keyboard and Mouse Interfaces
► Up to 28 GPIO pins depending on configuration
► 3.3V operation with 5V safe inputs
► Low power operation (25mA running/2mA standby)
► FTDI firmware easily updated in the field
► LQFP-48 RoHS compliant package
► Multi-processor configuration capable
NOTE:
VNC1L devices are supplied
unprogrammed
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FTDI's CEO., Fred Dart said - "Vinculum brings cost effective USB Host capability to products that previously did not have the hardware resources available. We anticipate that these devices will be especially popular for adding USB Flash Drive connectivity to a wide range of consumer and industrial products. As Vinculum comes complete with FTDI's in-house developed firmware, there are no USB software stacks to license, indeed, no knowledge of USB is required to use these devices."
"Vinculum", derived from the Latin word "vincere" means "an entity that binds/ ties objects or expressions together" - in our case various USB and other technologies.
► Download Vinculum application areas (PDF)◄
► Download the ESC Taiwan Vinculum (PDF) presentation ◄
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