1fde:0001 — UART Bridge

This is the USB identifier for a UART Bridge manufactured by ILX Lightwave Corporation. The vendor ID 1fde is registered to ILX Lightwave Corporation with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0001 is the product ID that ILX Lightwave Corporation assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1fde:0001 ILX Lightwave Corporation UART Bridge.

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1fde:0001 ILX Lightwave Corporation UART Bridge

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1fde:0001, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1fde:0001. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1fde, idProduct=0001.

Windows

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

USB\VID_1FDE&PID_0001
USB\VID_1FDE&PID_0001&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1FDE&PID_0001"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    UART Bridge:
      Product ID: 0x0001
      Vendor ID: 0x1fde  (ILX Lightwave Corporation)

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.

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

1fde  ILX Lightwave Corporation
	0001  UART Bridge

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