MAX3421E and mouse
All data on USB bus is transferred under host control. Even though some transfers are called IN and some other OUT, they all start at the host. There are four types of transfers, the most interesting of which is control transfer. This type of transfer is used all the time in communication with every class of devices. In this article, I give a short description on programming control transfers.
Control transfer consists of three steps( or stages ): setup, data, and status. Some of them carry necessary data in setup packet itself and don’t have data stage at all. Good example of such short request is “Set address” – the information to transfer is just one byte and is sent by filling a certain setup packet field.
Even though USB specification defines several different destinations for the transfer, such as device, interface and endpoint, on the lowest level each packet address consists of two parts – device and endpoint. Some endpoints are IN or OUT only. Other, such as “default control pipe” AKA endpoint 0, are bi-directional. Before each transfer can be sent out, peripheral address must be loaded into MAX3421E PERADDR register.
Continue reading Lightweight USB Host. Part 5 – control transfers.