10c4:80a9 CP210x to UART Bridge Controller

Silicon Labs

Vendor ID
10c4
Product ID
80a9
Combined
10c4:80a9
Decimal
4292:32937

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a CP210x to UART Bridge Controller manufactured by Silicon Labs. The vendor ID 10c4 is registered to Silicon Labs with the USB Implementers Forum, and 80a9 is the product ID that Silicon Labs assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 10c4:80a9 Silicon Labs CP210x to UART Bridge Controller.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 10c4:80a9 Silicon Labs CP210x to UART Bridge Controller

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 10c4:80a9, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 10c4:80a9. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=10c4, idProduct=80a9.

Windows

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

USB\VID_10C4&PID_80A9
USB\VID_10C4&PID_80A9&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_10C4&PID_80A9"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    CP210x to UART Bridge Controller:
      Product ID: 0x80a9
      Vendor ID: 0x10c4  (Silicon Labs)

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. Silicon Labs official support →

Raw usb.ids entry

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

10c4  Silicon Labs
	80a9  CP210x to UART Bridge Controller

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