USB97C202
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Application Note 10-2: Sharing the Storage Media Interface in SMSC's USB 2.0 Card Reader, Flash Drive, and ATA/ATAPI Products
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
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