Paul Lamar wrote:

I suspect the flash card interface is PC bus oriented.
My guess it is has a 32 bit multiplexed address and data buss.
As such it is too complicated to interface to for an embedded
Harvard architecture  processors such as the PIC.
I could be wrong. There could be a single chip solution out
there for this problem. I checked in the latest issue of Nuts
and Volts and Micromint and saw nothing. I think you would be better off
going with the serial EEPROM 8 pin mini dip and download
the data through an RS232. Off the shelf RS232 to USB adapters
are also available.

Paul,
Wander over to your nearest CompUSA/MicroCenter/BestBuy/CircuitCity.  There's a
Compact Flash reader/writer sold by SanDisk (and others) that plugs into USB.
USB, as everyone should know, stands for "Universal SERIAL Bus".  I'm not saying
that I want to do it, but it should be possible to hook up one of these to your
PIC.

Russell Kent

That sounds like that might be a way to go. The PIC should be able
implement the USB standard. BTW do you have the specs for USB?
 
Paul Lamar
 
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