Chapter 8. Advanced PIC18 Projects—USB Bus Projects

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is one of the most common interfaces used in electronic consumer products today, including PCs, cameras, GPS devices, MP3 players, modems, printers, and scanners, to name a few.

The USB was originally developed by Compaq, Microsoft, Intel, and NEC, and later by Hewlett-Packard, Lucent, and Philips as well. These companies eventually formed the nonprofit corporation USB Implementers Forum Inc. to organize the development and publication of USB specifications.

This chapter describes the basic principles of the USB bus and shows how to use USB-based applications with PIC microcontrollers. The USB bus is a complex protocol. A complete discussion of its design and use ...

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