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Open Host Controller Interface, or OHCI, is an open standard.

When applied to a FireWire card, OHCI means that the card supports a standard interface to the PC and can be used by the OHCI FireWire drivers that come with all modern operating systems. Because the card has a standard OHCI interface, the OS does not need to know in advance exactly who makes the card or how it works; it can safely assume that the card understands the set of well-defined commands that are defined in the standard protocol.

• OHCI: Open Host Controller Interface
  The OHCI standard for USB is similar, but supports USB 1.1 (full and low speeds) only; so as a result its register interface looks completely different. Compared with UHCI, it moves more intelligence into the controller, and thus is accordingly much more efficient; this was part of the motivation for defining it. If a computer provides non-x86 USB 1.1, or x86 USB 1.1 without an Intel or VIA chipset, it probably uses OHCI (e.g. OHCI is common on add-in PCI Cards based on an NEC chipset).

• UHCI: Universal Host Controller Interface
  Was created by Intel for USB 1.0 (full and low speeds). Far from being "universal", it is actually proprietary and is incompatible with OHCI. Intel and VIA controllers generally use UHCI, while other vendors use OHCI.

• EHCI: Enhanced Host Controller Interface
  Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) is a high-speed controller standard that is publicly specified. The USB-IF insisted on this for USB 2.0 instead of having a different standard for PCI-based USB interfaces, which would have increased complexity and therefore costs. Intel hosted the EHCI conformance testing, which helped to prevent divergence from the standard.
   
  EHCI only provides high-speed USB functions. It relies on a "companion controller", either OHCI or UHCI, to handle full- and low-speed devices. Motherboards and PCI Cards that provide high-speed ports thus have two controllers, one handling high-speed devices and the other handling low- and full-speed devices.
   
  It is not uncommon to find UHCI, OHCI and EHCI all co-existing in a standard PC, with a UHCI driver providing low- and full-speed functions on the (Intel chipset) motherboard, an OHCI driver providing low- and full-speed functions for the USB ports on an add-in (NEC chipset) PCI expansion card, and an EHCI driver providing high-speed functions for the USB ports on that expansion card.

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