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The HIDmaker FS Product Includes:

HIDmaker FS -- THE choice for smart professionals worldwide who need production-quality software for fast products, and who need to make those products -- FAST!

Includes Developers Guide for USB HID Peripherals which tells you the secrets of making devices with difficult design constraints:

No need for your end users to install any special device drivers: no complicated installation procedures or scary warning messages that increase your tech support costs. Windows XP recognizes and starts talking to your HIDmaker FS device in seconds!

New to USB? That's OK, we're here to help you. Knowledgeable help and advice are just an email or phone call away. (It's getting pretty hard to find that anymore, isn't it?) And Trace Systems guarantees that the generated software will work correctly, perfectly, every time, or we will make it right.

HIDmaker FS does so much more for you:

Here's the best part: you don't even have to write any code to put this data into packets and send it on the USB cable. Just assign a value to the variable in the peripheral program as you normally would, and then simply use that matching variable in the PC side program. HIDmaker FS's generated code acts like a magic mailbox that directly transfers variables to the other side. It automatically packs up your data and sends it to the other side (even if it takes multiple packets to send it all), where it is automatically unpacked for you, ready to use. It couldn't be simpler and more trouble free!

For one thing, both the PC and peripheral device programs understand your data. For example, if you created a variable in the Visual Data Designer called MeterReading, then you'll find that the custom code for both your peripheral and your PC program each contain a variable called MeterReading. You can use these variables just like any other variables in these programs: just remember that these values get transferred over the USB.

The programs that HIDmaker FS creates, for both ends of the USB cable, are really solid, really fast, and really, really smart.

All you need to do is tell the HIDmaker FS wizard what kind of project you want to create, and use HIDmaker FS's graphical sketchpad called the Visual Data Designer to define the data items that you want to send between your device and the PC. These can be arrays, and any mixture of data items, anywhere from 1 to 32 bits in size.

* Works great with the free 2005 Express Editions of these Microsoft compilers, too!

Generates PC code in:

Low speed 16C765 family:

HIDmaker FS -- USB the Easy Way!