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4 FREE USB-IDs FOR SHARED USE
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7 Objective Development has reserved a set of USB Product-IDs for use according
8 to the guidelines outlined below. For more information about the concept of
9 USB IDs please see the file USB-ID-FAQ.txt. Objective Development guarantees
10 that the IDs listed below are not used by any USB compliant devices.
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14 MECHANISM OF SHARING
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17 From a technical point of view, two different devices can share the same USB
18 Vendor- and Product-ID if they require the same driver on operating system
19 level. We make use of this fact by assigning separate IDs for various device
20 classes. On application layer, devices must be distinguished by their textual
21 name or serial number. We offer separate sets of IDs for discrimination by
22 textual name and for serial number.
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24 Examples for shared use of USB IDs are included with V-USB in the "examples"
25 subdirectory.
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29 IDs FOR DISCRIMINATION BY TEXTUAL NAME
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32 If you use one of the IDs listed below, your device and host-side software
33 must conform to these rules:
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35 (1) The USB device MUST provide a textual representation of the manufacturer
36 and product identification. The manufacturer identification MUST be available
37 at least in USB language 0x0409 (English/US).
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39 (2) The textual manufacturer identification MUST contain either an Internet
40 domain name (e.g. "mycompany.com") registered and owned by you, or an e-mail
41 address under your control (e.g. "myname@gmx.net"). You can embed the domain
42 name or e-mail address in any string you like, e.g. "Objective Development
43 http://www.obdev.at/vusb/".
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45 (3) You are responsible for retaining ownership of the domain or e-mail
46 address for as long as any of your products are in use.
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48 (4) You may choose any string for the textual product identification, as long
49 as this string is unique within the scope of your textual manufacturer
50 identification.
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52 (5) Application side device look-up MUST be based on the textual manufacturer
53 and product identification in addition to VID/PID matching. The driver
54 matching MUST be a comparison of the entire strings, NOT a sub-string match.
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56 (6) For devices which implement a particular USB device class (e.g. HID), the
57 operating system's default class driver MUST be used. If an operating system
58 driver for Vendor Class devices is needed, this driver must be libusb or
59 libusb-win32 (see http://libusb.org/ and
60 http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net/).
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62 Table if IDs for discrimination by textual name:
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64 PID dec (hex) | VID dec (hex) | Description of use
65 ==============+===============+============================================
66 1500 (0x05dc) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For Vendor Class devices with libusb
67 --------------+---------------+--------------------------------------------
68 1503 (0x05df) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For generic HID class devices (which are
69 | | NOT mice, keyboards or joysticks)
70 --------------+---------------+--------------------------------------------
71 1505 (0x05e1) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For CDC-ACM class devices (modems)
72 --------------+---------------+--------------------------------------------
73 1508 (0x05e4) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For MIDI class devices
74 --------------+---------------+--------------------------------------------
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76 Note that Windows caches the textual product- and vendor-description for
77 mice, keyboards and joysticks. Name-bsed discrimination is therefore not
78 recommended for these device classes.
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82 IDs FOR DISCRIMINATION BY SERIAL NUMBER
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85 If you use one of the IDs listed below, your device and host-side software
86 must conform to these rules:
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88 (1) The USB device MUST provide a textual representation of the serial
89 number. The serial number string MUST be available at least in USB language
90 0x0409 (English/US).
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92 (2) The serial number MUST start with either an Internet domain name (e.g.
93 "mycompany.com") registered and owned by you, or an e-mail address under your
94 control (e.g. "myname@gmx.net"), both terminated with a colon (":") character.
95 You MAY append any string you like for further discrimination of your devices.
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97 (3) You are responsible for retaining ownership of the domain or e-mail
98 address for as long as any of your products are in use.
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100 (5) Application side device look-up MUST be based on the serial number string
101 in addition to VID/PID matching. The matching must start at the first
102 character of the serial number string and include the colon character
103 terminating your domain or e-mail address. It MAY stop anywhere after that.
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105 (6) For devices which implement a particular USB device class (e.g. HID), the
106 operating system's default class driver MUST be used. If an operating system
107 driver for Vendor Class devices is needed, this driver must be libusb or
108 libusb-win32 (see http://libusb.org/ and
109 http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net/).
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111 Table if IDs for discrimination by serial number string:
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113 PID dec (hex) | VID dec (hex) | Description of use
114 ===============+===============+===========================================
115 10200 (0x27d8) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For Vendor Class devices with libusb
116 ---------------+---------------+-------------------------------------------
117 10201 (0x27d9) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For generic HID class devices (which are
118 | | NOT mice, keyboards or joysticks)
119 ---------------+---------------+-------------------------------------------
120 10202 (0x27da) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For USB Mice
121 ---------------+---------------+-------------------------------------------
122 10203 (0x27db) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For USB Keyboards
123 ---------------+---------------+-------------------------------------------
124 10204 (0x27db) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For USB Joysticks
125 ---------------+---------------+-------------------------------------------
126 10205 (0x27dc) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For CDC-ACM class devices (modems)
127 ---------------+---------------+-------------------------------------------
128 10206 (0x27dd) | 5824 (0x16c0) | For MIDI class devices
129 ---------------+---------------+-------------------------------------------
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133 ORIGIN OF USB-IDs
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136 OBJECTIVE DEVELOPMENT Software GmbH has obtained all VID/PID pairs listed
137 here from Wouter van Ooijen (see www.voti.nl) for exclusive disposition.
138 Wouter van Ooijen has obtained the VID from the USB Implementers Forum, Inc.
139 (see www.usb.org). The VID is registered for the company name "Van Ooijen
140 Technische Informatica".
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144 DISCLAIMER
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147 OBJECTIVE DEVELOPMENT Software GmbH disclaims all liability for any
148 problems which are caused by the shared use of these VID/PID pairs.