usbizi to act as a serial port

[dimilio]

First of all in the last days i have written lot of programs for usbizi and i think that is absolutely fantastic!!! Great Work!!
After getting confident with usbizi and the way that reacts to different programs it was time to write a real program. I am working in a company that develops different products for the industrial sector, one of our problems is that almost all of our projects use seral ports and we have not found any EASY way of using USB instead. In microsoft .net micro framework 3 i have seen an example of a device that acts as a usb mouse.
1) Is there any way to program the usb port to act as a serial port when plugged to a pc, and if it is what baud rate i will be able to obtain?
2) Is there any way when the device is plugged in the pc to have access from the pc to the SD and then read the sd from the usbizi, (not simultaneously, because i know that this is not possible)
3) (desperate queston  ) Is there any other way to send to the device data other than that thru the USB (without the need to write a driver in windows)?

Thanks in advance and keep up the Great Work
Iliopoulos Dimitris

[SupportAdmin]

The answer for all your questions come in few days on when we provide example on how to transfer data over USB

[dimilio]

Can you give us a brief explanation of what you are going to develop so we can start to figure out what to change in our desktop app to be compatible with the new usbizi mf? usbizi will act as a normal serial port? I understand the problems of programming projects but is there any estimate about when the new framework will be available?

Thanks in advance
Iliopoulos Dimitris

[SupportAdmin]

Yes it will be a serial port on the PC. For development, use the serial port on USBizi to the serial port on your PC. Once example is available, you can make little changes on USBizi but your PC code stays the same!

[GizmoHD]

what is the status of some example code on using the USB as a virtual COM or for communications with the host PC on this device?

[SupportAdmin]

I thought it is already in the SDK

[GizmoHD]

I assume you are talking about the code included under the embedded master folder..   there is none under the usbizi.. in fact samples for the usbizi are very sparse and lacking

[SupportAdmin]

USBizi is a subset of embedded master and so we concentrate on embedded master examples. Since we are done with 3.0 release, we now have time to create even more examples/projects and post them in www.microframeworkprojects.com
Always keep in mind that almost everything run on embedded master will run on USBizi, with obvious exceptions such as Ethernet and TFT displays