Designing and realizing the USB interface in the thermal conductivity instrument
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2013
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University of New Brunswick
Abstract
The Thermal Conductivity Instrument (TCi) is a state-of-the-art scientific instrument
for analyzing thermo-physical properties of materials. The product includes
multiple development elements, mechanical design, electronics hardware and firmware
design, software application on the PC side and scientific aspects in thermal conductivity
test. In our research we provide a way to expand the Universal Serial Bus
(USB) interface function for TCi inside which the microprocessor has no USB module.
Various approaches are considered including: Device firmware, USB firmware,
USB driver ( windows OS side) and Device application software. To be specific, what
is discussed and described in this thesis is a whole process about how to develop a
USB support product which means our solution can be applied to many products
rather than just the TCi.