USB products resources

This area of the Mirrorbow website provides applications information and resources specific to the USB product range

Software examples

The USB25IO and USB display products come as standard with examples in Visual C++. The board when connected appears as a serial com port, so you can easily test your board using a terminal program such as Windows Hyperterminal.

The simulation of a com port by the product makes interfacing much easier than other USB products (many of which require merging DLLs etc). If you can write to a com port you can write software to interface to these boards, and a simple search on google for serial com port and your programming language usually results in a large number of examples.

Although the officially supported software example is in Microsoft Visual C++ express (available to download free from Microsoft), dedicated Mirrorbow customers have also come up with examples for Visual Basic .net, Visual Basic for Office and C# (c sharp).

There are also customer examples of using the USB boards under a unix environment.

Although these examples are not supported by Mirrorbow, they are provided here as a guide to what can be done.
Please click on the links below to download the relevant files.

Officially supported Visual C++ USB 25IO examples

Officially supported Visual C++ USB Display 20 x 4 example

Officially supported Visual C++ USB Display 40 x 16 example

Visual Basic .net example

Visual Basic for Microsoft office example (you may need this link for recent security update issue with mscomm)

C# (C sharp) example

Unix/Linux interfacing example

Product Manuals

Manual for USB25IO

Dimensions and measurements for USB25IO

Manual for USB 4x20 display

USB display guide to using with LCD Smartie

Manual for USB 20x16 display