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PL23C3 Product Brochure

v1.0 4/21/19’

Prolific Technology Inc.

7F, #48, Sec.3, Nan-Kang Rd., Taipei, Taiwan 115, ROC

Tel: 886-2-2654-6363

Fax: 886-2-2654-6161

E-mail: sales@prolific.com.tw

http://www.prolific.com.tw

OVERVIEW

The PL23C3 is a high performance single-chip USB HID to I2C bridge controller for connecting various I2C

interface devices to any Universal Serial Bus (USB) capable host. The PL23C3 implements the standard

USB Human Interface Device (HID) device class which is natively supported in most operating systems; so

the PL23C3 does not need any custom driver installation. The operating system or USB host communicates

with the PL23C3 through HID application software developed based on Prolific Windows/Mac/Linux DLL

libraries.

The PL23C3 is designed to support a wide-range of I2C domain including portable, embedded, industrial,

consumer devices. With very small power consumption in either operating or suspend mode, the PL23C3 is

perfect for self-powered operation and can reserve power for the attached I2C devices. Flexible signal

voltage option allows the PL23C3 to connect directly to I2C devices with 5V~1.8V signals.

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FEATURES

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Full Compliant with USB Specification v2.0 (Full-Speed)

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Full Compliant with USB HID class driver

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On-chip USB 1.1 transceiver and 5V to 3.3V regulator

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On-chip 96MHz Clock Generator

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USB Human Interface Device (HID) class:

- No driver installation needed for Windows, Mac,

Linux, and Android.

- Provides HID-to-I2C SDK (DLL libraries) for

application development.

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USB HID to I2C Master specification support

- Supports I2C Standard mode, Fast Mode and Fast

Mode Plus (FM+) up to 1 Mbit/s

- Supports flexible I2C SCL clock generation, clock

rate up to 1MHz

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1024-byte bi-directional data FIFO buffers (768-byte

receive/256-byte transmit).

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Package type: QFN16

PL23C3

USB HID to I2C Bridge Controller

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