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The EZ Protoboard lets you prototype full speed USB devices using the Cypress EZ-USB FX microcontroller (an 8051 variant). All EZ-USB I/O lines are wired up to two female headers that can be used for bread boarding prototype external circuits or you can create your own stackable daughterboards that attach to the EZ Protoboard using male headers.

A 40 pin ATA interface is provided on this prototyping board. Given appropriate firmware (not yet finished), this board could be used as-is to act as a USB<->ATA bridge. Embedded devices requiring large amounts of storage space will also find this feature useful.

With 8K of on-chip RAM and builtin USB capability, firmware can be loaded an unlimited number of times from any USB capable computer. No external FLASH programmers or EEPROM burners are required to get started. Once firmware is bug free, a non-volatile serial EEPROM can be programmed incircuit to use for loading firmware into the onboard RAM at power on (with or without an attached computer).

Easy to use and reusable over and over again, this board is the perfect toy for any engineer!

News
The latest happenings with the EZ Protoboard.

Parts List
A shopping list of all the components you'll need to acquire.

Drawings
Schematics and PCB masks for making your board. Plus, a couple pictures of our fully assembled board.

Development
Tools and example firmware to help you develop software for your EZ USB devices.

Cypress EZ-USB FX
Cypress Semiconductor's web site for the EZ-USB FX chips. Grab the development kit software zip file to get all the technical documentation for these chips. Also contains Windows software for downloading firmware to the chip.