Olin Lathrop wrote: > "Peter L. Peres" wrote: > > 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. [ word-wrap and attribution fixed ] > 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. I suspect that in the "B" version of the chip, they're using a few EEPROM locations to control the configuration of certain features of the chip itself, and this is what they're trying to keep secret. Frankly, I find it hard to imagine that the value of keeping such things secret outweighs the real cost of doing the NDA paperwork and the potential cost of alienating customers. Perhaps it's just an excuse for collecting information about the customers. -- Dave Tweed -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.