Archive for November, 2007

UWB Security and OMAP

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Hello all,

When dealing with wireless communications we must protect our information by using cryptographic techniques. UWB is not different from any other wireless connection and we must take care of its security as well. There are already a bunch of cryptographic algorithms out there but which algorithm was chosen to be used with UWB ? Is it fast and secure enough ? Let's take a look at UWB Security features.

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HNP: Host Negotiation Protocol

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

We already discussed a bit about it and we know this is a feature to allow role switching in otg sessions without changing the cable. But what does this really mean? Who handle this? Which device(s) already support it? How should I know that my device supports HNP? Is there any public code for that?

That's what we're taking a look today. Take a look by clicking at the next link ;-)

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Linux-UWB Project

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Linux-UWB Project aims to develop a complete Ultra-Wide-Band stack for Linux Kernel. They're also working on WUSB and WiNET.

Part of the code is already done and hosted in a Mercurial Tree (it should be git :-p) available in: http://bughost.org/repos.hg/uwb.hg

Anyone is invited to join this work by pointing to http://linuxuwb.org, checking out the code and looking for TODO and FIXME strings in source code.

The person who's in front of the Project is Iñaky Perez-Gonzales from Intel.

There's not much to say here about the project, all you should do now is point to their website, clone the code and start contributing.

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Ultra Wide Band Overview

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Hi all,

Do you know what UWB means? What is that for? Have you ever heard about it?

If not, we'll study this new and quite nice communication protocol together. If you've already heard about it, it's not that bad to review some concepts, right?

In this post I'll introduce UWB protocol and on next one, talk a bit about Linux-UWB project maintained by Iñaky Perez-Gonzales from Intel. (more...)

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SRP Overview

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Hello all,

What's SRP or Session Request Protocol? What is this for? How does this happen? How to implement it? How can I see it working?

These are the questions we're trying to answer in this post. Our first piece of code will come in this post. Like I said before, all codes are based on Linux OMAP git tree and MUSB driver.

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OTG Overview

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Hi all,

Let's start to take a look in USB OTG (On-the-go) functionalities. Of course, I'll focus on linux and MUSB driver which you can find in linux-omap git tree. In this first post, just a quick overview of the specs and its features.

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Back to Work

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Hi all,

Yes, I moved my blog to another server with an easier domain: http://felipebalbi.com/blog, how nice?

In the next series I'll try to focus on USB OTG functionalities and also some UWB and WUSB studies I'm playing with, from time to time there will be some misc posts as well.

Se y'all.

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