About Us

Code Mercenaries is a supplier for the industrial input device and peripheral market since 1998.

The keyboard controller family "KeyWarrior", combined keyboard and mouse controller family "KeyWarrior Combo", and mouse controller family "MouseWarrior" serve as basis for a significant number of the European industrial input device manufacturers. During the last few years we also saw a significant number of design wins in North America.

A small but vital customer base are the manufacturers of products for the disability market and other speciality input devices.

The joystick controller family "JoyWarrior" serves a broad range of customers from industrial machine/vision control, professional and semiprofessional simulator control, to hobby and model building. A good option for front panel design is the joystick/mouse hybrid controller MW24J8 which is switch selectable to work as a mouse or joystick allowing cursor control or data input. 

Applications for the IO-Warrior are very diverse. Basically only the number of pins and the data rate put limits on the use of IO-Warrior. It is used in laboratory setups, test equipment as well as in hobby projects or full scale device production either as the core of a device or "just" the interface to USB. IO-Warrior chips control robots and telescopes, do quality control on production lines, take measurements in labs, control switches and displays in front panels or simulator cockpits, or work as the USB interface in many kinds of products.

Our philosophy is to provide complete solutions that allow our customers to concentrate on their own strength in developiong their end products. The necessary know how for controlling interfaces like the USB or PS/2 is encapsulated in our chips so that the device manufacturer does not need to care about these details but rather can concentrate on what they can do best. Like a manufacturer does not need to care about details of USB but can fully devote their engineering to creating rugged and reliable keyboards.