USBXpress Controller simplifies USB connectivity for embedded designs

Silicon Labs has included a smaller, lower-power part to its group of USBXpress bridge devices, providing giving an easier, faster approach to include Universal Serial Bus (USB) network to new and legacy iembedded designs. Silicon Labs’ new CP2102N USB controller disposes of, complex time-consuming firmware development and gives propelled usefulness in QFN packages as small as 3 mm x 3 mm. The CP2102N device improves USB-to-UART connectivity and speed time market for a wide range of portable, power-sensitive and space-constrained applications such as USB dongles, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, data loggers, gaming controllers and personal medical devices

Silicon Labs’ highly integrated CP2102N USB-to-UART bridge controller provides a simple, drop-in solution for adding USB to new designs and also for updating existing RS-232 designs to USB using minimal components and printed circuit board (PCB) space. Based on Silicon Labs’ proven architecture that eliminates the need for costly external crystals, resistors and other external components, the fixed-function bridge device integrates a USB 2.0 Full Speed controller and UART interface in a single-chip solution that helps reduce bill of materials (BOM) cost for space-constrained applications.

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