072f:90cc ACR38 SmartCard Reader

Advanced Card Systems, Ltd

Vendor ID
072f
Product ID
90cc
Combined
072f:90cc
Decimal
1839:37068

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a ACR38 SmartCard Reader manufactured by Advanced Card Systems, Ltd. The vendor ID 072f is registered to Advanced Card Systems, Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and 90cc is the product ID that Advanced Card Systems, Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 072f:90cc Advanced Card Systems, Ltd ACR38 SmartCard Reader.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 072f:90cc Advanced Card Systems, Ltd ACR38 SmartCard Reader

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 072f:90cc, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 072f:90cc. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=072f, idProduct=90cc.

Windows

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

USB\VID_072F&PID_90CC
USB\VID_072F&PID_90CC&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_072F&PID_90CC"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    ACR38 SmartCard Reader:
      Product ID: 0x90cc
      Vendor ID: 0x072f  (Advanced Card Systems, Ltd)

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:

072f  Advanced Card Systems, Ltd
	90cc  ACR38 SmartCard Reader

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