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USB2ANY: Linux Support

Sheba Kunjumon
Prodigy 10 points
Part Number: USB2ANY

Tool/software:

Does USB2ANY Interface Adapter provide Linux support?

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    TI__Mastermind 33690 points

    The default library for interacting with USB2ANY (USB2ANY.lib, or USB2ANY.dll) is a Windows-only binary. Desktop-based applications that repackage this library are unlikely to offer native Linux support, though I admit I've never attempted to get it working on Wine.

    The actual USB2ANY hardware is just using hidlib to pass messages over USB. In principle, it is possible to interface with the hardware at the HID packet level. In practice, there's no public-facing documentation of the HID packet structure or the command syntax that I'm aware of. We have the source code, so it is at least possible to generate this documentation if required for some of the more common APIs like SPI/I2C/GPIO control. And in fact, several EVM GUIs on dev.ti.com have already done this. I'm not as familiar with web-based GUIs, but I could ask the dev.ti.com team if there's any documentation or relevant source code we could share.

    So the USB2ANY itself could certainly be used with Linux PCs. But the software you're trying to use might not support it.

    Is there a specific software tool you're trying to use? Or are you just trying to interface with the adapter itself?