Starting a USB design with MCUs
Keywords:USB? data bus? data communication? battery charging? protocol?
Its popularity and low cost have made it ubiquitous. Its ubiquity has even led to uses beyond data communication C for example, as a means of power delivery: both out of hosts (for example, into coffee warmers) and into devices as a means of battery charging. But a lot is going on under the surface of USB. Making a fast, reliable data bus that automates common behaviours and tolerates hot plugging requires layers of protocol. And it requires a great deal of standardisation among large numbers of industry players; in fact, multiple forces shape the USB experience today.
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Originally published by Texas Instruments Inc. at www.ti.com as "Starting a USB Design Using MSP430 MCUs".
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