software controlling PIC through USB?

[Sajjadkhan]

HI Guys.
I have query serial ports are obsolete e.g. there are none in laptops. USB will always be there. So any good software in which i can design my interactive GUI and control my pic or any controller via my PC usb port?

Recommend something else than Matlab. what about visual studio is it viable? can i make the exe of that GUI and can run on any PC?

 

[FvM]

Most people are setting up the USB part as CDC device and control it through virtual COM port, keeping the previously used serial commands.

 

[nigelwright7557]

Microchip do an excellent range of USB software for the PIC.
I use an 18f4550 but you can get smaller devices with USB.

 

[Sajjadkhan]

Microchip do an excellent range of USB software for the PIC.
I use an 18f4550 but you can get smaller devices with USB.

I know nothing about USB thing so confused as there are many softwares. Can you mention the name. i tried to find but in vain.

I hope somebody give me a good starting point.

 

[nigelwright7557]

I know nothing about USB thing so confused as there are many softwares. Can you mention the name. i tried to find but in vain.

I hope somebody give me a good starting point.

Try this it is a complete start to usb with a pic and pc program.
Building a PIC18F USB device - WFFwiki

 

[Sajjadkhan]

Try this it is a complete start to usb with a pic and pc program.
Building a PIC18F USB device - WFFwiki

Thanks a lot. Really its a good starting point. One more thing if you can recommend me a good visual studio tutorial regarding this,thanks.

 

[bigdogguru]

Here are a few tutorials covering various PIC USB class Host App development methods using Visual Studio:

HID Class:

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USB and PIC Microprocessors 16C745 and 18F2455

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Open Source Framework for USB Generic HID devices based on the PIC18F and Windows


CDC Class:

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BigDog

 

[xpress_embedo]

I had made one GUI to send Data from PC to USB using Visual Basic..



Have a look at these links and blog entry

https://sites.google.com/site/coolembeddedlaboratory/home/pic18f4550

https://sites.google.com/site/coolembeddedlaboratory/home/pic18f4550/visual-basic-and-usb

https://www.edaboard.com/blog/1512/

 

[tpetar]

HI Guys.
I have query serial ports are obsolete e.g. there are none in laptops. USB will always be there. So any good software in which i can design my interactive GUI and control my pic or any controller via my PC usb port?

Recommend something else than Matlab. what about visual studio is it viable? can i make the exe of that GUI and can run on any PC?

You can have RS232/LPT on any Laptop/Notebook just put expansion card into empty PCMCIA port. You can even get several ports with special cards say like 8 RS232 from one expansion card. And RS232 ports are true RS232 with 12V not 5V, this depence from expansion card specification.

https://www.google.com/products/cat...a=X&ei=X_dyT8-gE4zLsgbtmvj2DQ&ved=0CGQQ8wIwAA

 

[xpress_embedo]

Have a look at this software:-

Default Vendor Id is 1234(decimal)
Default Product Id is 1

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[mheee09]

I have made a project of pic usb device which can communicate with pc software. I use mikroc and software given from microchip. Have a look here pic usb device