USB Embedded Pipe
HCC’s Embedded Pipe for USB takes the pain out of interfacing a USB device with a host application.
Windows Side
An installable Windows XP/Vista driver creates a standard comm object in the PC. This driver can be accessed using simple read/write object methods. Additionally, HCC provides a simple configuration application that allows the user to configure the USB connection. Access to the Embedded Pipe comm object can be from any program - VC, Perl, VB, Vbscript, etc.
An Embedded Pipe Terminal, which is a VC++ application, is included in the package. It is, roughly analogous to HyperTerm, but is connected through a raw USB connection.
Embedded Side
The embedded side could not be simpler. The user simply reads and writes from the pipe to communicate with the host application. The internals of USB are entirely hidden.