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Grant R. Guenther wrote:

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> The Freecom driver does something unusual for devices of this sort: it
> begins by pulsing, one bit at a time, a sequence of 14827 bits into the
> adapter. At first glance this would appear to be the program for a
> microcontroller of some sort, although it looks odd - more than 80% of the
> bits are ones. I suspect it is more likely to be a table that controls
> a finite state machine.

This sounds like the truth table for an SRAM-based FPGA. The ratio of
ones to zeros is about right.

Bob

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