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SEGGER emUSB-Host

Overview

The Mass Storage Device protocol (MSD) is used to get access to one or more storage mediums. Using this class, emUSB-Host provides access to external storage media such as USB-sticks and external hard disk drives, memory card adapters.

msd

Key features

  • Any Mass storage device (Memory stick, hard disk) can be used
  • Included in the emUSB-Host Base package
  • It is independent of the file system. An interface to emFile is provided
  • Small footprint
  • Application Samples
  • Structure of MSD
  • Example Code Included
  • Requirements

Application Samples emUSB-Host MSD

memory stick

Memory Stick

hard disk

USB Hard Disk Drive

card reader

Cardreader

Structure of MSD Component

A mass storage device connected to emUSB-Host is added to the file system as a volume. All operations on the device, such as formatting, reading / writing of files and directories are performed through the API of the file system. With emFile, the device name of the first MSD is "msd:0:".

emUSB host msd class structure graph

Example Code Included

Example code which is provided with any shipment or eval software including emUSB-Host. The example shows the capacities of the connected device (such as the volume size, number of sectors, etc.) and shows files in the root directory and creates and writes to a file. Several application samples can also be found on the emUSB-Host sample page.

Requirements

Components required to use emUSB-Host MSD:

  • emUSB-Host MSD (Included in emUSB-Host Base package)
  • emUSB-Host core (Included in emUSB-Host Base package)
  • emUSB-Host target driver (One driver is included in emUSB-Host PRO package)
  • Real-time operating system (embOS or other)
  • File System (emFile)

Resource usage

  • User manual
  • List of downloads
  • Update notification
  • Pricing
  • Support
  • Silicon vendor resources

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