I'm implementing USB on a PIC 18F2550 using a generic HID interface. I've set up the HID profile configuation to have a single 64 byte message for both inputs and outputs.
Now it's basically working. The device registers OK with windows. I can find it in my program on the PC and can send and receive data to it. The problem is this though - messages from the PC to the PIC are truncated to the size of the EP0 endpoint buffer.
Before I go debugging too much further I want to try to clarify my understanding of the USB protocols here and check I got it right.
Assume that the EP0 input buffer is 8 bytes. It's my understanding that the PC end will send a control packet which is 8 bytes. In there is the length in bytes of the data to follow. And then it will send a sequence of 8 byte data packets and the PIC end has to acknowledge each one.
It's my understanding that the PC end knows how big each packet may be by looking in the maximum packet size field in the device descriptor and will divide up the message accordingly into multiple data packets.
Before I go looking for more hours at the code, can anyone confirm that this is basically correct? That if the EP0 buffer size is 8 bytes then the PC should know this because of the configuration field I mentioned above and send multiple data packets?
If I make my receive buffer on the PIC 64 bytes then I get 64 bytes of the message which is sufficient for my needs, but I don't like not understanding why it doesn't work with small buffers, and one day I'll probably need them anyway.
Any advice or information would be welcome.