Standalone USB Transfer Device

Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

Recent days, there is huge requirement of fast data transfer in all sectors. There are many such kinds of static devices like Pen Drives, USB portable Disks etc are used in daily applications to transport or store a data. We need to transfer these data from one device to another and for those operations we require PCs, Laptops. Even though for a small data transfer of Pen Drives we must require heavy systems like PCs, Laptops and those are expensive and bulky. There is imminent need of Device which can overcome this problems, hence we are designing such a device called “Standalone USB Transfer Device” by using PIC Microcontroller1. In this project we can see the data from both Pen Drives on LCD and we can select desired files to copy or move between them. There is a Keypad also used to scroll and selection of menus of operations in this project. The aim of the proposed system is to remove every time need of the computer for the data transfer. To do so, the system uses an independent solution for the problem – Standalone USB Transfer Device. The concept of this device will make it possible to carry out the mass data transfer anywhere, anytime. This project is built around the PIC Microcontroller to accommodate all the requirements that the end users may want. The portability and small foot print are the major advantages of this Device. It is an embedded solution to a practical problem. The design of device also require USB host Controller named VINCULUM 2.0 2 which employed for actual USB Data transfer. This module operates on the instructions given by PIC Microcontroller. The Standalone refers for independence of operation. There is no need of Operating system to run this device. This device is battery operated hence power interruption problems are eliminated.

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