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Author Topic: VNC1L as a keyboard controller? Polled vs interrupted?  (Read 7920 times)

AndersG

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VNC1L as a keyboard controller? Polled vs interrupted?
« on: October 02, 2020, 02:36:30 PM »

I have a design for an universal keyboard controller for a special type of equipment that use a proprietary protocol. The design is based on a PI24 microcontroller. Unfortunately does that PIC only have one USB port and the microchip libraries lack support for hubs so I thought I'd investigate using a VNC1L as I already had one from another project. The proprietary protocol part is done as is PS/2 input for both Keyboard and mouse.

I am interfacing the VNC1L through SPI and I run it at maximum speed. The docs are sketchy, but I found some examples, brief ones in the internet, but I am wondering if I am going about things the wrong way as this implementation is far from ideal, ie:

You issue an "SSU $A101000100000800"  and then loop polling "SSU $210A003D00000000" where 3D is the desired poll speed.

Sometimes, out of the blue the VNC1L will return "Command failed" in which case I have to reissue "SSU $A101000100000800" and then continue polling.

My problem is that this polling eats a lot of cpu cycles that are better needed elsewhere. Is there a more elegant way to do this with a VNC1L or with another chip?
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AndersG

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Re: VNC1L as a keyboard controller? Polled vs interrupted?
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2020, 11:30:03 AM »

Thanks! I will look into it. FWIW, I think I have it sorted with the VNC1L though.

The VNC2-32L1C looks tempting though.. How different is it from the VNC1 as an USB to SPI host?
« Last Edit: October 19, 2020, 05:46:06 PM by AndersG »
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FTDI_USA

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Re: VNC1L as a keyboard controller? Polled vs interrupted?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2020, 04:04:21 PM »

Hello:

The VNC1L SPI interface is only available as a SPI slave and uses "managed mode" SPI, which is not commonly used.

The VNC2-32L1C can be configured as a SPI slave or master, and supports "unmanaged SPI", which makes it compatible with industry standard SPI interfaces.

Feel free to contact me via  us.support@ftdichip.com  going forward.



Best Regards,

FTDI USA
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