Our electronics industry uses the term “embedded” to describe a non-reprogrammable, or fixed function, piece of equipment or device. This book also uses this definition but with an added, more literal, meaning. Most dictionaries define embedded as “enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass” and this is the approach that I will be taking with “Embedded USB.” Yes, the designs will have USB inside but this is not their main focus. Most USB books describe USB as a technical wonder (which it is) then flood the reader with an overwhelming amount of detail. I am not going to do that, so this book will NOT make you a USB technical guru. What it will do however, is describe USB as a tool that you can use to solve a wide array of problems.
