It ensures your device charges at full speed.
A device will not charge at full speed unless it sees the coding it wants on the usb pins. Problem is, there is no standard. Android wants one code, Apple wants apple code and a few others want different codes.
This chip will adapt and always present the code needed for max charging speed. It switches among 6 different coding schemes.
And as a side effect it will prevent juice jacking. A USB charging port stealing your devices’s data and/or injecting malicious code.
Took me 6 tries to get simple board made, not that learned, but what halo said, automatic ranging of charge scheme, also have tested the chips on my dual port DCP enumerator I made, that one unlike this one needs external power source, this one uses power available and provided by USB port it’s plugged into
Forgive my noobness…but how does this connect to an item you want to charge? Is it a board you install internally, or does it have some sort of USB in/out and connect via charging port, between charger and item to be charged?
Can this be ordered as a complete item, build kit, or…just a board, and we buy the parts separately from digikey/mouser/ebay? Will a housing/cover be part of the get-up, or is the board just left exposed?
I am amazed at the talent an ingenuity of BLF members. Nicely done, WH!
So far just board, I put BOM on OSHPark page and here for DIYers, but I am sure RMM might pick em up and sell em, I did it creative commons license no commercial, but put BLF on it because it’s “ours”
No cover as of yet. Need to get one for meaurements then try to figure out printable case