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Hi Veeresh, I believe this question was answered recently. If you must have a host-device relation between 2 PCs
then you’ll need to have the following, On host PC, 1) USB device driver for the "device PC" 2) Application that runs on top of 1) On device PC - for it to appear as a device, 1) USB device controller PC add-on card 2) PC's driver for 1) 3) Application that run on top of 2) To have nothing done on the host PC means your device
must be one of the USB Class devices. And the device class must also already be
supported by the OS on the host. Please look at this link, http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass.html. But if you are doing a class device, then I wonder
why you need a PC to do it. Most of these devices should already be readily
available on the market. For the USB device controller PC add-on card, you may
take Rudolf’s suggestion (copied below from his reply to the last enquiry on
the same topic). Buy
a PCI FPGA prototype board. Download the PCI core from OpenCores, download
the USB 2.0 Function core from OpenCores. Synthesize them, download
them in to the PCI FPGA board (similar to the board the PCI project
used.) Now all you need is to write a small piece of software to integrate
the hardware in to your favorite OS. (If it's linux I think the PCI
project has some sample drivers ! Personally, I’ll do 2 apps to communicate with each
other over either a file transfer cable or host-host adaptor. One app will be
master and the other the slave. But that’s just me being lazy. J Cheers, kwanie -----Original
Message----- Hi all, Can
anybody give me the idea of connecting two PCs. One should act as
a peripheral and other as host. I hope there is nothing to be done at the
host PC. How to make another PC as peripheral? Thanks
and regards, Veeresh |