November 2010
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
18h 14m
English
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Suggested Reading
In terms of books, USB is probably the most popular topic. With a little digging, you might be able to turn up a book or two dealing with RS-232 or RS-485. There really isn’t a whole lot available in the way of contemporary books about GPIB (or IEEE-488), but there are a lot of useful sources of information available via the Internet. Entering either “GPIB” or “IEEE-488” into Google will return numerous documents, some better than others.
Most of the books on Python that have already been referenced contain information concerning writing extensions in C or C++, and reviewing the API documentation for a particular piece of hardware is essential in order to use it effectively.
As a starting point, here are a few references you might find useful:
- Real Time Programming: Neglected Topics, 4th ed. Caxton C. Foster, Addison-Wesley, 1982.
Contains a brief but useful overview chapter on GPIB interfaces and the hardware handshaking GPIB employs. This book has long been out of print, but it is still possible to find used copies (also referenced in Chapter 9).
- USB Complete: The Developer’s Guide, 4th ed. Jan Axelson, Lakeview Research, 2009.
If you want to learn more about USB, you might want to consider this book. Axelson does a good job of explaining the low-level details of USB interfaces, with a particular focus on Human Interface Device (HID) class implementation. If you want to implement your own USB interface or just learn more about USB in general, this is a good place to ...
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