userial News

userial is an Open Source project containing both Hardware and Software to build your own USB to I2C bridge.

News ^¶

Firmware v1.9  (25 March 2010)
userial firmware v1.9 released. The changes in this version are:

• Updated LUFA to version 100219.
• Added support for bumble-b board.
• The actual SPI clock divider was never written to the clock divider. Thanks to Erik Schönewerk.
• Fixed a bug in the GPIO driver: the GPIO read command returned the value of PORTx but not PINx. Thanks to Dave Fletcher.

Firmware v1.8  (31 October 2009)
userial firmware v1.8 released. The changes in this version are:

• Fixed a bug in the calculation of the SPI frequency divider. Thanks to Zoran Stojkovic.

Firmware v1.7  (26 September 2009)
userial firmware v1.7 released. The changes in this version are:

• Updated LUFA to version 090924.
• Added ADC support. Many thanks to Zoran Stojkovic.
• Added compile switches to selectively turn off features.

Bumble-B  (12 September 2009)
fletchtronics.net sells a board called Bumble-B and has ported userial to the the AT90USB162 processor.

Firmware v1.6  (28 February 2009)
userial firmware v1.6 released. The changes in this version are:

• Added new command 'IX' for a I2C bus clear.
• Fixes a bug in the USB transmit task: when userial was transmitting 16 bytes on the USB bus, the data was kept in the transmit buffer until the next command.

Firmware v1.5  (25 January 2009)
userial firmware v1.5 released. This version adds support for the SPI interface.

Firmware v1.4  (16 December 2008)
userial firmware v1.4 released. This version fixes a few bugs and contains minor improvements:

• Fixed a bug in the Ack/Nack signal handling on master read operations.
• Made the command handler more robust. Now it is possible to send commands in batch mode.
• Added new command '#' (comment line).
• Updated LUFA library to version 081217.

Firmware v1.3  (07 December 2008)
userial firmware v1.3 released. This version contains a few improvements:

• Added GPIO support.
• Fixed a bug in the calculation of the I2C frequency calculator.
• Reduced RAM footprint.
• Relicensed the source code under the terms of the MIT licence.

Firmware v1.2  (26 November 2008)
userial firmware v1.2 released. Fixed a bug in the command parser. After an error the response was delayed.

Firmware v1.1  (14 November 2008)
userial firmware v1.1 released. Added settings for I2C speed.

Firmware v1.0  (31 August 2008)
userial firmware v1.0 released.

Schematic v1.0  (10 May 2008)
This is revision 1.0 of userial (with all possible x.0 bugs, naturally!).

Schematic released for review  (15 April 2008)
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