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West Bridge to ease interface problems
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27/11/2006
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In a parallel to the development of North and South bridges in the pc world, Cypress has unveiled the West Bridge in a move aimed at helping embedded systems builders to keep pace with rapidly evolving interface standards.
Devices in the West Bridge family will act as companion chips to embedded cpus, off loading data intensive operations and reducing power consumption along the way.
At the heart of the family is proprietary technology. SLIM – the Simultaneous Link to Independent Media – manages multiple dedicated paths between peripherals, memory and processor to support maximum data throughput. SLIM also supports data transfer between peripherals without the host processor being involved.
The first member of the family is Antioch, intended to provide a direct path in mobile handsets from High Speed USB 2.0 interfaces to mass storage devices.
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Author
Graham Pitcher
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