What Does Usb-c In Dev
As all of you can tell from the title, I need help understanding how to communicate to a USB port. Basically I need to send some bits to a usb micro controller and to do so I need to understand how you do it in C for both a Windows and Linux computers. I'm going to be creating my own interface (still figuring that out) which basically works by having the micro controller send out a signal so I can figure out what port it's on and from then on I just start sending the bits to it.
So here's a breakdown of what I need to know.
1. When the data exits the port to the device, will it have the port address with it when the device reads in the data?
2. I'm going to be working with Ubuntu and Win XP, what things will I need to utilize from the OS?
3. Would you recommend a better way to interface to USB?
4. Do I have to repeatedly send a signal when trying to find which usb port the device is on?
A USB port is a standard cable connection interface for personal computers and consumer electronics devices. USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for short-distance digital data communications. USB ports allow USB devices to be connected to each other with and transfer digital data over USB cables.
As you can tell I'm kind of jumping into this without know what I'm getting myself into. I'm open to any suggestions (other than giving up).
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You may have to write a driver for the USB device or uterlize it as a communications port as say you do with usb serial adapters or things like that.
The windows device foundation SDK has methods for dealing with USB devices ( and also quite possable some sample code. ) Documentation can be found here.
The windows device foundation also allows you to write a usermode driver, if you don't want to risk crashing windows :P.
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