usb
Version 1.3.0.2 revision 0 uploaded by BasVanDijk.
Package meta
- Synopsis
- Communicate with USB devices
- Description
This library enables you to communicate with USB devices from userspace. It is implemented as a high-level wrapper around
bindings-libusb
(http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bindings-libusb) which is a low-level binding to the C library:libusb-1.*
(http://libusb.org/).The USB transfer functions in this library have a simple synchronous interface (they block) but are implemented using the
libusb
asynchronous interface. They integrate with the GHC event manager making them efficient (no busy-loops) and interruptible (throwing an exception to the thread executing a transfer immediately cancels the transfer).If the GHC event manager is not available (because you're either not using GHC or because you're on Windows) the library degrades gracefully to the
libusb
synchronous implementation.This documentation assumes knowledge of how to operate USB devices from a software standpoint (descriptors, configurations, interfaces, endpoints, control/bulk/interrupt/isochronous transfers, etc). Full information can be found in the USB 2.0 specification (http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/).
For an example how to use this library see the
usb-example
package (https://github.com/basvandijk/usb-example) or thels-usb
package (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ls-usb).Besides this API documentation the following sources might be interesting:
The
libusb 1.0
documentation (http://libusb.sourceforge.net/api-1.0/).The USB 2.0 specification (http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/).
The
bindings-libusb
documentation (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bindings-libusb)."USB in a NutShell" (http://www.beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/usb1.htm).
- Author
- Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com>
- Bug reports
- https://github.com/basvandijk/usb/issues
- Category
- System, Hardware
- Copyright
- 2009–2014 Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com>
- Homepage
- http://basvandijk.github.com/usb
- Maintainer
- Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com>
- Package URL
- n/a
- Stability
- n/a