USB CDC/ECM Class Driver for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7

Features Supported Platforms Demo Documentation Prices

Thesycon’s USB CDC/ECM device driver provides a network adapter emulation on Windows operating systems by implementing the CDC/ECM protocol on USB.

The driver supports all Windows desktop operating versions (e.g. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7). The driver works with devices that are compliant to the Communication Device Class (CDC) specification, subclass Ethernet Control Model (ECM).

USB CDC/ECM Class Driver for Windows

USB CDC/ECM Class Driver Features

The driver supports the NDIS 5.0 model on Windows 2000 and NDIS 5.1 on Windows XP and higher.

Windows can show plug and play devices on the PnP card in the systray and can complain if such devices are removed from the system without stopping it. The driver can suppress this entry in the Systray. The device can be removed from the PC without any preparation.

The driver supports the requests for power management. For that reason the adapter is not stopped if the PC enters standby, sleep or hibernate. This has the advantage that a device with AutoIP address negotiation must not restart the negotiation after the power down state of the PC.

The MAC address provided by the device is used for the network adapter. If the device cannot provide a valid MAC address the driver can use a MAC address provided in the INF file or generate one from a public pool.

The IP address of the adapter can be assigned by DHCP, AutoIP or manually.

The USB CDC/ECM class driver can be used with devices that implement multiple USB interfaces. In this case a multi-interface driver is required. This driver splits the interfaces to separate device nodes. On each device node a new driver stack can be installed.

The driver conforms to Microsoft's Windows Driver Model (WDM) and can be certified by Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL).

Feature Summary

Supports USB 1.1 and USB 2.0
Supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows XP embedded, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64, Windows 7, Windows 7 x64
Exposes a Network Adapter Interface
Hot plugging of devices is fully supported
Design and implementation complies with the Windows Driver Model (WDM). The driver is certifiable by Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) for all current 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems.
Supports two or more Network Adapters for Multi-Interface devices with Thesycon’s USB Multi-Interface Driver

Supported Platforms x86 x64

Windows 7

Windows Vista yes

Windows Server 2003 yes

Windows XP embedded yes

Windows XP yes

Windows 2000 yes

Free Downloads

Demo Version

The demo version is time-limited but has full functionality. After the device is connected the driver can be used for 4 hours, then the driver disables itself and the computer must be rebooted in order to use the demo again. The demo package includes the driver and the documentation.

USB CDC/ECM Class Driver Demo Package