08.03.2011

FTDI Releases “Embedded USB Design by Example” Book from John Hyde

Free e-book download including software code examples and FTDI documentations

The next part of the eagerly awaited practical engineering guide “Embedded USB Design by Example”, commissioned by FTDI to assist designers, is now available.  This book is written by the highly regarded technology author, and USB guru, John Hyde.  The book complements, and builds upon, FTDI existing portfolio of product documentation by guiding design engineers through the steps necessary to add USB connectivity to their system design and identifies techniques to overcome the various practical challenges they face – in both hardware and software.

Part 1 of this popular book dealt with the basic principles of USB, covering the finer points of the USB architecture, looking at fundamental USB theory, explaining how to build a USB device that can plug into Windows or OSX platform, describing how to carry out serial and parallel device conversion and how to connect to other USB devices.

Part 2 of the book deals specifically with the practicalities of USB hardware and software development using  practical examples based on the FTDI’s family of dual USB host controllers, the Vinculum-I and the recently released Vinculum-II. The book gives detailed examples of how these ICs can be utilised by progressively guiding the reader through various projects which give step-by-step instructions on constructing hardware and developing the associated firmware/software using the free-of-charge Vinculum-II software development tool-chain. Each project stage builds on previous stages, while explaining to the user the reasons behind each addition to the project. Additionally it gives the reader useful hints and tips for practical software/hardware USB design.

The book comes complete with a copy of all the developed “C” source code examples for each project, as well as all the complete hardware details.

The book supports FTDI’s philosophy of “USB Made Easy”.