Announcing a special tutorial for the IEEE Boston Section

“USB Hands-on”

Tuesday - Wednesday, November 13 - 14, 2007
9 AM - 4 PM
Location: Holiday Inn Select, Woburn, MA

Join us for a two-day hands-on workshop on learning the Universal Serial Bus and applying USB communications in embedded systems. This workshop is targeted for the embedded systems engineer (hardware and/or software) and managers.

Level: Intermediate / Advanced

Prerequisites: knowledge of embedded systems concepts and development, including rudimentary C language coding.

Participants will need to bring a laptop with Windows XP or equivalent operating system, CD or DVD drive, and one open USB port. You will be installing some development software as part of this workshop, so you will need at least 400Mb of free disk space..

Topics to be covered include:
	USB Specification:
	Devices, Hosts, and On-the-go Versions 1.0 / 1.1 / 2.0 differences Speeds Connectors
	USB Communications:
	Enumeration Frames Packets Transactions
	Principles of USB Device Design
	Hands-on example: Human Interface Device
	Considerations for Mass Storage devices
	Hands-on example: USB memory “stick”
	Principles of USB Host Design
	Hands-on example: reading a USB memory “stick”
	USB On-the-go: putting it all together
	Modules and custom chips: Build vs. Buy
…And much more!

Participants will receive a USB development system, evaluation (or student) versions of all development software, a hardcopy of the slides presented and a CD of the code examples presented. Bring your laptop (XP or Vista)!

The hardware provided consists of a Freescale MCF52221 ColdFire USB development board and a Microchip 163025 USB Demo Board. The development systems run on the Windows (XP / Vista) operating system. Computer requirements: 300Mb free disk space, CD or DVD drive, USB port. Power will be provided for your laptop so be sure and bring your charger / AC adapter.

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