This Windows-based USB to Multi-Protocol Converter provides multiple communications capabilities supporting: I2C & MDIO. The USB-MPC product makes it easy to work with and develop with these interfaces. USB-MPC allows users the option to program with Visual C/C++ or other programming environments that support DLLs. USB-MPC interfaces to the standard USB (V1.1 or V2.0) Port on any IBM-compatible PC and allows bi-directional communications. The USB-MPC software operates on Windows 2000 or XP; comes with support for MDIO, an IEEE serial communication protocol; Device Descriptor Files (DDF), ASCII files allowing the user to add support for new devices, either I2C or MDIO; and a Sequencer, which reads ASCII files allowing the user to setup multiple read/write instructions to be executed in any defined sequence.  Using the Main Program Window the user selects an I2C or MDIO peripheral. Once a device is selected, a Device Dialog Window is used to communicate directly to the selected device.

The USB-MPC supports programming of many I2C EEPROMs and also now supports low voltage I2C functioning with target supplied voltage down to 1.5 volts. USB-MPC-KIT supports the MDIO 22 and 45 standards in addition to I2C. MDIO 22 and 45 are also known as 802.3 Clause 22 and 802.3ae Clause 45, respectively.

Support for additional I2C Devices can easily be added with Device Descriptor Files (DDF). Complete documentation on the contents of a DDF file, how to create a DDF file, and example DDF files are provided by FDI and can easily be edited by the user.

The USB-MPC-KIT has a useful feature called the Sequencer. This Sequencer gives the user the ability to perform sequences of read and write commands, in I2C and MDIO modes. Read commands can be either displayed to the screen or logged to a ".log" file. It even supports loops. These sequences are stored in an ASCII text file, called a Sequence Descriptor File, with the ".SDF" extension and can easily be edited by the user.