NXP’s USB portfolios are ideal for a variety of industrial and consumer applications that require USB connectivity. In the medical instrumentation field, an increasingly higher number of instruments need network communication via USB for data processing and remote monitoring. Barcode scanners and smart card readers, for example, are using USB more and more to communicate with Point of Sale (POS) systems. Dataloggers are popularly used in the industry to communicate with PCs for data collecting and analysis via USB.