A purely software based USB peripheral for ARM Cortex M0+ devices.
This software enables Cortex M0+ devices to act as Low speed USB device. It includes a lightweight USB & HID Stack and easily be optimized to consume only 4KB of flash.
The development took a lot of time, especially testing. Alltough we created a lot of USB devices and stacks before, this was very challeging, because each time it looked to work OK, a new issues was found which needed fixing. E.g. special cases in bitdestuffig, timing related issues, and so on.
A Cortex M0+ at 24 MHz can do the whole USB decoding within a single loop. With loop unrolling and some other techniques the clock frequency can be decreased more. To keep the memory footprint low, we decided to start with 24 MHz only for the first version.
A synchronization method using an internal RC oscillator is in evaluation phase. Perspectively, it can be possible to use e.g. the 21 MHz HFRCO of a EFM32ZG as clock source. Compared to other solutions, the synchronization will most likely not retune the HFRCO, but act like a DPLL.
Timing critical code executes from RAM. This is to avoid waitstates, which can be undeterministic. From RAM, it will execute always with 0 waitstates.
We have tested this on EFM32ZG110F32 (See EFM32ZG110 Quick Start Board v1.1).
It should work on any other EFM32ZG, too.
Currently PA0 needs to connect to PC0 via a 1K5 resistor PC0 to D- PC1 to D+ of the USB port.
Apart from an external 24 MHz crystal nothing more is needed.
We have written a bootloader that works over LemcUSB. We also have a Qt based cross-platform GUI that interacts with this bootloader. These would be posted after testing.
Apart from lot of nice features (see EFM32ZG110F32 datasheet) at a price-point suitable for hobbyist, Silicon Lab's EFM32 peripheral library (emlib) is completly open source. "emlib" is available under a Zlib style open source license.
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