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/

155: Foot-Seeking Bullet

Jonathan Bradshaw spoke with us about working with hardware engineers, schematic reviews, and FPGAs.

At the end of the podcast, Jonathan made a pitch for folks to submit proposals for the IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference in Auckland in December.

The FPGA boards Elecia mentioned were the XLR8 board and the Papillio platform (more on the latter in show #66).

By the way, The Amp Hour is our “enemy podcast” but we actually like their show quite a lot. It is a joke. But do feel free to tweet their shameless advertising tweet with the link replaced with one to our show. 

And weta are neat! (Image, wiki)