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PIC18F4550 USB Board

Posted by Nathan House, in Electronics, Completed Projects 22 July 2011 · 10,153 views

Completed Project
I designed this board to be a general-purpose experimentation board to help me learn about the PIC184550 USB module (or SIE). This was meant to be a kind of "step up" from my dsPIC30f4011 board which uses an RS-232 serial interface for communication with a PC. I really wanted to move from using RS-232 to USB, as USB is the new standard these days and because there are USB ports on all new computers. This board was really just supposed to be a prototype, but it ended up working so well, I decided to use it as the microcontroller on my CNC machine. It's also a very easy PCB to make because of the thick traces and ample spacing.

Here's a picture of the board on my CNC machine:

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Hello Robotics Guy!

Can you please help me out for a small problem in my usb project!

I am trying for simple usb communication b/w pic18f4550 and PC. I have used your code of ''Using microchip usb cdc framework" for testing.

I have made necessary usb circuit. but the problem is that when i plug the usb into the PC. It detects my usb hardware and a driver message for "USB- RS232 Emulation Demo" comes and ask for driver and after 3-4 seconds this message disappears and device also disappears from the device manager.

and when I unplug and plug again. the same behaviour is also repeats.

I am using 24pf load capacitor with 20 mhz crystal. Can you figure out the problem? am i using the correct load capacitors?

I will be very very thankful to you if you assist me. =)

waiting for your reply.

-Awais
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