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@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ UHD - Transport Application Notes
.. contents:: Table of Contents
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Introduction
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+A transport is the layer between the packet interface and a device IO interface.
The advanced user can pass optional parameters
into the underlying transport layer through the device address.
These optional parameters control how the transport object allocates memory,
@@ -67,8 +71,7 @@ The USB transport is implemented with libusb.
Libusb provides an asynchronous API for USB bulk transfers.
The transport implementation allocates a number of buffers
and submits asynchronous requests through libusb.
-A single thread runs in the background
-and executes the libusb event handler to process these requests.
+Event handler threads run in the background to process these requests.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transport parameters