NEW PRODUCT PRESS RELEASE

for immediate release   March 1, 2006

Tiny ready-made USB Interface

Adding a USB serial connection to your favorite micro or circuit with baud rates up to 1 Mbps is now as simple as adding 8 pads to your target board on a .1" grid.  The tiny 0.7” x 0.5” Micro-USB uses a standard USB B connector to connect to your PC using a standard USB cable, allowing simple connection to breadboards or PCBs. Royalty-free rock-solid drivers are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Based on SiLabs CP2101, and only requiring ground, RX, and TX signals, Micro-USB doesn’t need any modem handshaking lines available from the CP2101 chip.  But Suspend, Reset, and 3.3V regulated 100mA source is conveniently available from Micro-USB too. Operating temperature range is –40 °C to +85 °C. 

Applications: Micro-USB makes an easy USB-serial interface, so you an easily create USB to RS-232 converters , USB to RS-422/RS-485 converters , upgrade legacy RS232 devices, make PDA and cellphone USB interface cables, barcode readers, POS terminals, etc.

CP2101 is a 5 x 5 mm single-chip USB to UART bridge that converts data traffic between USB and UART formats.  The chip includes a complete USB 2.0 full-speed function controller, bridge control logic and a UART interface with transmit/receive buffers and modem handshake signals. The device also features an internal 1024 byte EEPROM, a voltage regulator, a USB transceiver and an integrated internal oscillator, eliminating almost all external components generally required in USB applications. System development is further simplified by royalty-free device drivers for PC, (Windows 98SE/2000/XP), Macintosh and Linux platforms. User programmable custom Baud rates, integrated transceiver and precision clock, CP2101 supports USB suspend states. Micro-USB is optionally available with pin-compatible CP2102 (min. qty needed) this version - unlike with other USB ICs - supports all modem interface signals: hardware X-On/X-Off handshaking; 5, 6, 7, 8 data bits; 1, 1.5, 2 stop bits; odd, even, mark, space or no parity; on-chip 512 byte receive buffer; on-chip 512 byte transmit buffer; event character support.

Micro-USB is available now from stock from Saelig Co. Inc. Pittsford NY. info@saelig.com

 

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