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30.Dd September 5, 2004
31.Dt UCYCOM 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm ucycom
35.Nd device driver for Cypress CY7C63743 and CY7C64013 USB to RS232 bridges
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "device ucycom"
38.Sh HARDWARE
39The
40.Nm
41driver currently supports the following devices which incorporate
42Cypress USB to RS232 bridge chips:
43.Pp
44.Bl -bullet -compact
45.It
46DeLorme Earthmate USB GPS receiver
47.El
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51driver provides support for the Cypress CY7C63743 and CY7C64013 bridge
52chips.
53These chips were designed to provide a low-cost transition path to USB
54for existing RS232 devices, and have fairly limited capabilities.
55.Pp
56The
57.Nm
58driver behaves like a
59.Xr tty 4 .
60.Sh SEE ALSO
61.Xr tty 4 ,
62.Xr usb 4
63.Sh HISTORY
64The
65.Nm
66driver first appeared in
67.Fx 5.3 .
68.Sh AUTHORS
69.An -nosplit
70The
71.Nm
72driver and this manual page were written by
73.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org .
74