> Why would it be ridiculous ? It's their IP and they want to protect it. If > you want one for free, write it yourself. This was a strange message, > coming from you, imho. They freely publish all the other external details of the chip. It just seems strange that this one thing is treated differently. I rather doubt the information would be of any value to a competitor, nor that the competitor couldn't easily obtain it if they really wanted to anyway. This NDS BS only raises the hassle factor for legitimate users like me. The information stored in the EEPROM is all standard USB endpoint descriptor stuff and the like. The only thing they are holding back is the exact details of what bits are stored at what addresses in the EEPROM. ***************************************************************** Embed Inc, embedded system specialists in Littleton Massachusetts (978) 742-9014, http://www.embedinc.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.