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# 1.2.6 USI Service

The Smart Energy USI (Unified Serial Interface) Service is a multi-instance buffer model based driver interface which can be used in conjunction with another Smart Energy services/drivers to communicate with external devices through serial interfaces.

Key Features:

- Multi-instance: Provides interface to manage multiple instances of serial interfaces
- Multi-protocol: Each instance of USI service can manage different protocols through the same serial interface
- Supports UART serial interfaces
- Supports USB (CDC Device) serial interfaces
- Several tools can be used on the other side of serial interfaces:
  - Microchip PLC PHY Tester tool
  - Microchip Smart Energy Python Libs
  - Microchip Hybrid Sniffer tool

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