USB: The Universal Serial Bus (FYSOS: Operating System Design Book 8) - Softcover

Lunt, Benjamin David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468151983 ISBN 13: 9781468151985

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub, 2014

Synopsis

Learn to program the four major USB controllers, UHCI, OHCI, EHCI, and the new xHCI, and communicate with devices attached to their root hubs, without operating system intervention. This book teachs you how to communicate with the bare hardware to request the device descriptors and then send and received data from various USB devices including USB external Hubs.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin David Lunt has been programming computers since 1984 and has always enjoyed the hardware side of the spectrum.  He has programmed many different types of programs, mostly for DOS and other minimal operating systems, as well as a few programs for the Windows family.

About 13 years ago, he started to read up on the Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) and got hooked on the USB concept.  He has been programming for USB ever since.  One of the more known projects has been the USB support for the Bochs Emulator.

Programming is not Ben's only line of work.  He has been in the building trade since 1991, and enjoys remodeling homes.

He also enjoys hunting, fishing, and is an active member of his local Boy Scout troop.

Edition details

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1468151983
• ISBN 13: 9781468151985
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 582