USB RNDIS Driver for Embedded Devices

Budapest, Hungary and New York, NY – February 4, 2009 - HCC-Embedded today announced the release of EUSBD-RNDIS™, a class driver implementation that allows embedded devices to connect to hosts over USB and appear as a standard network card.

The EUSBD-RNDIS driver includes a virtual Ethernet driver. The virtual Ethernet driver has a simple API that facilitates easy integration with any TCP/IP stack, or to another Ethernet driver interface.

Once connected to the USB host device – typically a PC – the embedded device appears as a standard network card to the host. For example, if a TCP/IP stack on the embedded device is attached to the virtual Ethernet driver of EUSBD-RNDIS, then a web-server on the embedded device can be accessed either directly from the host PC, or by devices connected to the same network as the host PC.

EUSBD-RNDIS conforms to HCC’s USB device interface specification. It is compatible with all HCC’s EUSB Device drivers.

HCC’s Embedded USB Device system has base USB device drivers for many microcontrollers including: 

1. Atmel: AT91SAM7x, AT91SAM9xxx, AT91RM9200
2. NXP: LPC21xx,23xx,24xx,28xx,3xxx
3. ST: STR7x, STR9x, STM32xx
4. Freescale: MCF5xxx, MPC5xxx, MPC8xxx, imx2x/3x, STMP3xxx
5. TI: DSP 55xx
6. External USB controllers including the NXP ISPxxx range and the Maxim MAX3421e

EUSBD-RNDIS is an addition to HCC’s suite of software for USB function device class drivers that include:

1. EUSBD-CDC-ACM Serial Port Emulation
2. EUSBD-EP Embedded Pipe
3. EUSBD-HID Human Interface Device
4. EUSBD-HID-BL Bootloader
5. EUSBD-MS Mass Storage
6. EUSBD-MTP Media Transfer Protocol
7. EUSBD-RFI Reliable File Interface
8. EUSBD-RNDIS Remote Network Driver Interface