PIC and universal serial bus(USB)

[wild roze]

Hi,
i am doing the usb in microchip pic18 controller .
i could not understand the enpoints of usb properly .
can anyone tell me what are endpoints ?

what are the pipes ? what it is doing exactly ?
please answer ...

 

[A.Anand Srinivasan]

endpoint is the buffer to which data can be sent to or received from.
Pipe is a logical representation of communication with a particular endpoint.