0400:a000 Smart Display Reference Device

National Semiconductor Corp.

Vendor ID
0400
Product ID
a000
Combined
0400:a000
Decimal
1024:40960

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Smart Display Reference Device manufactured by National Semiconductor Corp.. The vendor ID 0400 is registered to National Semiconductor Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and a000 is the product ID that National Semiconductor Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0400:a000 National Semiconductor Corp. Smart Display Reference Device.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0400:a000 National Semiconductor Corp. Smart Display Reference Device

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0400:a000, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0400:a000. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0400, idProduct=a000.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_0400&PID_A000
USB\VID_0400&PID_A000&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0400&PID_A000"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Smart Display Reference Device:
      Product ID: 0xa000
      Vendor ID: 0x0400  (National Semiconductor Corp.)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

0400  National Semiconductor Corp.
	a000  Smart Display Reference Device

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