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> My recomendation, if you want to work with the SAM7's USB, write your
> own USB code using the Atmel code as an (bad) example on how to do it.

Use Dean's LUFA package if you can:
http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php

NXP just licensed his ARM port.

> Oh yes.. reporting those bugs to Atmel lead to being ignored...

<RANT ON>

Worse than being ignored is the answer of "Yeah, we knew about that.
We'll update the documentation."
I've still not seen updated documentation for some of the things I've
reported, after *years* of wait.

The AVRStudio-5 fiasco shows Atmel's utter contempt for their customers.
The contempt for users of their parts shows in their web site as well.
It gets fancier each revision to show the stock holders, and each time
the datasheets get harder and harder to find.

I've been told by the Rep Firm, who was fired by Atme (They got us
good pricing that Atmel then tried to not honer), that today Atmel is
putting all of their effort into TouchStuff, at the expense of
everything else.

We've used tens of thousands of various AVRs per year for the last ten
years or so.
Continuing availability issues, obsoleting parts every few months,
without replacements being ready, documentation that waste your time
(Ever try to use the XMega128A1 CRC range command, as it is
documented?  The silicon doesn't even have that feature in it!) etc.

We've already decided our future projects will not have any Atmel
parts of any type in them.
Right now we are leaning to Renesas RX/RL78 or Energy Micro ARM parts.

<RANT OFF>