10cf:5501 — 8055 Experiment Interface Board (address=1)
Velleman Components, Inc.
- Vendor ID
- 10cf
- Product ID
- 5501
- Combined
- 10cf:5501
- Decimal
- 4303:21761
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a 8055 Experiment Interface Board (address=1) manufactured by Velleman Components, Inc.. The vendor ID 10cf is registered to Velleman Components, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 5501 is the product ID that Velleman Components, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 10cf:5501 Velleman Components, Inc. 8055 Experiment Interface Board (address=1).
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 10cf:5501 Velleman Components, Inc. 8055 Experiment Interface Board (address=1)
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 10cf:5501, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 10cf:5501. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=10cf, idProduct=5501.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_10CF&PID_5501 USB\VID_10CF&PID_5501&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_10CF&PID_5501"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
8055 Experiment Interface Board (address=1):
Product ID: 0x5501
Vendor ID: 0x10cf (Velleman Components, Inc.)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:
10cf Velleman Components, Inc. 5501 8055 Experiment Interface Board (address=1)