>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim
Thiemann <joachim.thiemann at gmail.com> writes:
Joachim> But at the expense of convenience, the SDHC parport
Joachim> interface would be super simple and thus cheap. In fact,
Joachim> the minimal implementation would require: - DB25 parport
Joachim> plug - protoboard - 6 resistors - a way to connect a SD card
Joachim> (could be soldering pins directly to a SD-microSD converter
Joachim> and one can still swap microSD cards) - some wire ...
I'm not sure about "super simple". I think SD cards have an MMC
compability mode that's pretty simple (I2C, or SPI, one of those).
But that's a legacy ultra-slow interface. The "real" SD interface is
a 25 Mbit/second (or 50 Mbit/second in high speed mode) packet
oriented serial interface. Yes, you can construct those packets in
software, but you can't do bitwiggling in software at those kind of
clock speeds...
paul