Posted on December 25, 2004 at 06:42If you mean the extended temperature range by the 'industy grade' , it is totally upto you to find out a device. SMSC and ITE (im not pretty sure about winbond..) all have extended temperature range SIO lineups. one thing to consider is the 'host interface' and the price. and total commodity acquisition period. if your operating system does not support that chipset, things can go harder way. (well, you can write device driver yourself if your hardware is working properly and you have fine strategy to check your hardware, i think it would take 2 or 3 weeks to write a new device driver, in BIOS code or in O/S code, if you have no access to system programmer resource nor a system programmer yourself, there is no estimating the final project end date..)
