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Summary: With application code in both Visual C++ and Visual Basic
Review: Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Jan Axelson's USB Complete: Everything You Need To Develop Custom USB Peripherals continues to be an excellent and highly recommended "how to" guide and reference for anyone seeking to develop devices and software that communicate with USB. This new edition explains what developers need to know about version USB 2.0 specifications and its new high speed of 480 Megabits per second. There is also an added example application code in both Visual C++ and Visual Basic, information about new controller chips and development tools, as well as expanded coverage of the USB support under Windows. The value of this highly recommended text is enhanced further with the author's extensive web page with articles, program code, and other links of special interest...
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Summary: USB Complete or is it?
Review: The author does a great job reviewing the details of USB. However, if your intentions are like mine to design some hardware and transfer data from the device to the PC, I think your pretty much out of luck.I understand this is a very hard subject but the author does not include sample drivers that allow you to communicate with a generic part, let alone, helping you develop a driver for your application. I think this book is only good to get a sense only for what USB is and how it works. Unfortunately, blocks diagrams do not solve anyones problem, and knowledge-hungry individuals such as myself find these books rather useless. Buy the book only if you have no clue what USB is, else do not waste your money.
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Summary: "The best, clearest, single source of USB information..."
Review: These are some comments from reviewers who got an advance look at USB Complete: "Many books are full of things that are easy to find out, and skirt around the harder stuff, which you have to really work at. What I really like about this book is that Jan has obviously slogged at the difficult stuff as well." - Dave Wright, Applications Engineer, Cypress Semiconductor "This is the best, clearest, single source of USB information I've yet seen published. It's unusual to find such an easy-to-read style combined with real meat." - Lane Hauck, Member of the Technical Staff, Cypress Semiconductor "I tell all my students that they really need this book in their library." - Paul E. Berg, instructor, Annabooks USB Developers Workshop "USB Complete provides a great groundwork for anyone working with USB for any purpose, whether it is designing a peripheral or creating host software. This book should be read by anybody getting started with USB." - Joshua Buergel, BlueWater Systems "If you intend to use USB in your next project I highly recommend USB Complete. This book will give you an complete overview and help you to get started with USB firmware as well as hardware." - Christer Johansson, High Tech Horizon
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Summary: Sorry excuse for a book titled "complete"
Review: This book (and his others) do not cover things from a "complete" standpoint. If you are looking for a book to help you design hardware from scratch THIS IS NOT IT. All hardware and references to hardware are for off-the-shelf demo boards or OEM products. This book is more about writing software for *existing* hardware.
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Summary: Sorry excuse for a book titled "complete"
Review: This book (and his others) do not cover things from a "complete" standpoint. If you are looking for a book to help you design hardware from scratch THIS IS NOT IT. All hardware and references to hardware are for off-the-shelf demo boards or OEM products. This book is more about writing software for *existing* hardware.
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Summary: Building the device will cost you a lot of extra $
Review: This book is well written. However, if you're intent on
building the exact USB device as described in the text, you
will have to spend a lot of money (the required hardware alone
costs at least US $1400). Personally, I don't see the point in
buying a book describing a hardware/software project in detail
when you can't afford to buy the hardware/software.
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Summary: Good overview
Review: This book provides a good overview of USB and in fact it answered all my questions, even though it does not cover the chip I've decided to use. Our USB device is now up and running!
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Summary: Good overview
Review: This book provides a good overview of USB and in fact it answered all my questions, even though it does not cover the chip I've decided to use. Our USB device is now up and running!
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Summary: Not Same Level as Serial Complete
Review: This book was not at the same level as "Serial Complete". This may be due to the fact that serial ports have been around 10 times as long. Still, there are very few USB books around and this is one of the best of them, so you cannot go far wrong with it.
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Summary: this is for host programers
Review: This is a good book if you are a host programmer and need to kow the dirty details of USB. But if you are looking for a practical circuit and a practical GUI you are not going to get it. Most devices takes care of the protocol within the hardware designed in the device so we really dont need to know all of the details that this book covers. If you plan on using USB for a hobby project and need quick, easy examples to get started that are specific to lets say a PIC dont buy this book. But if you need to know how USB works but dont want to read the boaring USB spec buy this book.
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