纵谈USB总线（上）

什么是USB

USB（Universal Serial Bus，通用串行总线）是连接CPU与外部设备的一种串口总线标准，也是一种输入输出接口的技术规范。
而USB的出现的时候，那个时候已经有很多的通信方式了，如232、485等，可是为什么还是出现了USB总线呢，而且在后续的发展USB总线比其他通信方式用得更加普遍。

Themain reason that new interfaces don’t come around very often is that existing interfaces have the irresistible pull of all of the existing peripherals that users don’t want to scrap. Also, using an existing interface saves the time and expense of designing something new. This is why the designers of the original IBM PC chose compatibility with the existing Centronics parallel interface
and the RS-232 serial-port interface—to speed up the design process and enable users to connect to printers and modems already on the market. These interfaces proved serviceable for close to two decades. But as computer power and the number of peripherals have increased, the older interfaces have became a bottleneck of slow communications, with