Keyboarding Made Simple or USB Complete

Keyboarding Made Simple

Author: Leigh E Zeitz

A new book for a necessary skill
A twenty-first-century revision of the popular Touch Typing Made Simple (over a million copies in print), this breakthrough guide brims with step-by-step exercises for keyboarding with ease. Practice drills make sure the lessons stick. Now anyone can produce error-free text in a flash.

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USB Complete: Everything You Need to Develop Custom USB Peripherals

Author: Jan Axelson

Now in its third edition, this developer's guide to the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface covers all aspects of project development, including device programming and host application software. This book shows how to transform the information in the USB 3.0 specifications into functioning devices and application software that communicates with the devices. To help build a foundation for design decisions, developers are guided in selecting device-controller hardware. Developers will also learn the benefits of the USB interface, its limitations, and how certain design choices made at the beginning of the project can reduce development time. Recent developments in host and device hardware, more detail on the standard USB classes, application examples using Microsoft's .NET Framework, and information on developing dual-role devices using USB On-The-Go is provided in detail.

EDN Magazine

EEs . . . interested in a clearer, more concise presentation might do better to obtain a copy of USB Complete, Second Edition.

Midwest Book Review

Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Jan Axelson's USB Complete: Everything You Need To Develop Custom USB Peripherals continues to be an excellent and highly recommended "how to" guide and reference for anyone seeking to develop devices and software that communicate with USB. This new edition explains what developers need to know about version USB 2.0 specifications and its new high speed of 480 Megabits per second. There is also an added example application code in both Visual C++ and Visual Basic, information about new controller chips and development tools, as well as expanded coverage of the USB support under Windows. The value of this highly recommended text is enhanced further with the author's extensive web page with articles, program code, and other links of special interest to USB devlopers.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	xiii
1.	A Fresh Start	1
	What USB Can Do	3
	It's Not Perfect	11
	History	16
2.	Is USB Right for My Project?	21
	Fast Facts	21
	The Development Process	35
3.	Inside USB Transfers	39
	Transfer Basics	40
	Elements of a Transfer	44
	Ensuring that Transfers Are Successful	61
4.	A Transfer Type for Every Purpose	71
	Control Transfers	71
	Bulk Transfers	78
	Interrupt Transfers	81
	Isochronous Transfers	85
	More about Time-critical Transfers	89
5.	Enumeration: How the Host Learns about Devices	93
	The Process	94
	Descriptor Types and Contents	101
	Descriptors in 2.0-compliant Devices	116
6.	Control Transfers: Structured Requests for Critical Data	119
	Elements of a Control Transfer	119
	The Requests	127
7.	Chip Choices	141
	Elements of a USB Controller	142
	Simplifying the Development Process	147
	A Look at Some Chips	157
8.	Inside a USB Controller: the Cypress enCoRe	171
	Selecting a Chip	172
	The Assembler	173
	Programming in C	180
	Chip Architecture	181
	USB Communications	187
	Other I/O	192
	Other Chip Capabilities	197
9.	Writing Firmware: the Cypress enCoRe	209
	Hardware and Firmware Responsibilities	209
	Hardware Development Tools	219
10.	How the Host Communicates	231
	Device Driver Basics	231
	The Win32 Driver Model	237
	Choosing a Driver Type	248
	Writing a Custom Driver	249
11.	How Windows Selects a Driver	255
	The Process	255
	Inside an INF File	262
	Creating INF Files	271
12.	Device Classes	275
	Uses of Classes	276
	Matching a Device to a Class	279
13.	Human Interface Devices: Firmware Basics	293
	What is a HID?	294
	Identifying a Device as a HID	299
	HID-specific Requests	306
	Transferring Data	314
14.	Human Interface Devices: Reports	321
	Report Structure	321
	The Main Item Type	325
	The Global Item Type	330
	The Local Item Type	339
15.	Human Interface Devices: Host Application Primer	343
	Host Communications Overview	344
	Using API Functions	348
	Device Attachment and Removal	362
16.	Human Interface Devices: Host ApplicationExample	365
	Finding a Device	366
	Reading and Writing Data	384
17.	Device Testing	401
	USB Check's Test Suite	402
	Test Equipment	409
	Testing and Logos	417
18.	Hubs: the Link between Devices and the Host	423
	Hub Basics	424
	The Hub Class	434
19.	Managing Power	443
	Powering Options	443
	Hub Power	449
	Saving Power	452
20.	Signals and Encoding	457
	Bus States	457
	Data Encoding	462
	Packet Format	467
	Test Modes	470
21.	The Electrical Interface	473
	Transceivers and Signals	474
	Signal Voltages	484
	Cables	485
	Ensuring Signal Quality	492
	Index	497