337: Not Completely Explode

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/