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vicki19880929
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October 4, 2013
Question

is there a reason using 2 separate usb endpoint for virtual com port example?

  • October 4, 2013
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Posted on October 05, 2013 at 00:46

I was checking out the usb virtual com port loopback example provided in STM32_USB-FS-Device_Lib_V4.0.0.  

When I looked into the usb endpoint (usb_endp.c or usb_conf.h), it defines EP3 (OUT) and EP1(IN) as the endpoints for bulk data in and data out.  I wonder if there's any reason using two endpoints instead of one?   According to RM0038, there are 8 bi-direction endpoints or 16 single-direction endpoints for stm32l-discovery.  Can't we combine the two single-direction endpoint of EP3 and EP1 into one bi-direction endpoint, just like the EP0 bi-directional endpoint?  Is there any limitation doing this?  

Thanks a lot!

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    vicki19880929
    vicki19880929Author
    Associate III
    October 7, 2013
    Posted on October 07, 2013 at 18:30

    Anyone? I've given it a try by setting both at EP1_IN and EP1_OUT as bulk endpoint, but the virtual com port example didn't work at all.  Thanks.

    Tesla DeLorean
    Tesla DeLorean
    Guru
    October 7, 2013
    Posted on October 07, 2013 at 18:38

    Anyone?

    Apparently no one with an answer.

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    vicki19880929
    vicki19880929Author
    Associate III
    October 7, 2013
    Posted on October 07, 2013 at 23:38

    Thanks clive.  

    I didn't change the direction in the usb descriptor so it couldn't function at all.  After I changed the descriptor file,  the bidirectional bulk endpoint is working.

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