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337: Not Completely Explode

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English - July 16, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 179 ratings
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Kate Temkin (@ktemkin) explained USB: how to get started, general orientation, useful tools, and when you’d use it in embedded systems.

Kate’s website is ktemkin.com. She works at Great Scott Gadgets.

References for USB: 

USB in a Nutshell 

USB Complete by Jan Axelson

USB Embedded Hosts: The Developer’s Guide by Jan Axelson

USB Specification, Chapter 9: USB Device Framework

USB Stacks we talked about:

TinyUSB from Adafruit

Lufa

Cortex libopencm3

For the host side: libusb

Open Source VIDs are available from Openmoko and Pid.codes

Kate recently gave a talk about making USB accessible. Part of the talk was about Luna, an FPGA based USB multitool.

Some open source FPGA tools:

Symbiflow.github.io

Yosys: http://www.clifford.at/yosys/

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