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Most, if not all, embedded SoCs I have laid my hands on as an EE were either OTG or slave
by friendzis 11y ago
Most, if not all, embedded SoCs I have laid my hands on as an EE were either OTG or slave
- Animats 11y agoA reasonable number of USB master tablets exist. There's a web site for tablets with USB-A (master) sockets.[1] [1] http://www.tabletswithusbports.net/ http://www.tabletswithusbports.net/
- friendzis 11y agoNot to appear picky but I think this needs to be clarified a bit. USB uses synchronous (request-response) wire protocol and one side is always requesting, another responding - hence master and slave. This is not runtime configurable/negotiatable. Traditionally USB transceivers were designed as either master or slave (host/peripheral), though with the rise of smart peripherals (embedded/mobile devices) came need for both in one device. Manufacturers could design product with 2 different USB transceivers or use one that is configurable to either master or slave. If you examine any mini/micro USB port/plug you will find 5 pins, and 4 pins on a large (both A and B). That extra pin is actually a toggle for OTG transceiver mode. Of course manufacturers can decide to internally wire transceiver to any mode and expose only data/power pins, but that does not stop transceiver from being OTG. Exactly this is done in top Android tables from mentioned site - they have nVidia Tegra SoC which actually uses OTG transceivers. I am not intimate with PC hardware (would expect master-only transceivers), but, as I have said before, all embedded SoCs I have laid my hands on (not too many) used either slave-only or OTG transceivers.