USB97C202
Allows manufacturers to program their own VID/PID/etc.
in the USB97C202's required external serial EEPROM.
The USB97C202 is a USB 2.0 Mass Storage Class Peripheral Controller intended for use with standard ATA-5 and -6 hard drives and standard ATAPI-5 devices.
The device consists of a USB 2.0 PHY and SIE, buffers, Fast 8051 microprocessor with expanded scratchpad and 768 bytes of program SRAM, internal 48 KB program ROM, and an ATA-66 compatible interface.
Provisions for optional external Flash Memory up to 64K bytes for program storage is provided. A serial EEPROM which can be modified via USB from the host provides unique VID/PID/Serial numbers, as well as optional configuration information.
Andrews (DG Staff Member) on 25-Aug-2004
The following files are found inside the driver download file.
Name | Size | Date |
---|---|---|
USB97C202 Release Notes.pdf | 437.2 KB | 8 Oct 2002 |
EEPROM.DAT | 2.4 KB | 18 Feb 2002 |
WriteEE.exe | 282.8 KB | 27 Feb 2002 |
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