Vinculum-II is a second generation product building on FTDI’s USB experience and customer requests. It has a custom designed CPU with increased processing capability over FTDI’s first generation USB Host Controller, Vinculum-I.  Building on FTDI’s competitive advantage by delivering a complete solution, Vinculum-II enhances the initial member of the Vinculum family, the Vinculum-I, by reducing the device cost. The Vinculum-II supports full-speed and low speed Control, Bulk, Isochronous, and Interrupt mode data transfers. In addition, the IC supports 3 power modes, 1 suspend mode, and comes in 6 different packages. Included at no charge is FTDI’s IDE design tool for developers that want to create their own firmware. As with FTDI’s Vinculum-I IC, precompiled firmware is available to allow quick and easy development. The IDE and precompiled firmware is available at http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/ICs/VNC2.htm.