USB 3.0 device controller has 'industry's highest' throughput value
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Silicon IP provider, Evatronix has announced the release of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 device controller, which it claims has the 'industry's highest throughput value' of over 430Mb/s.
The USBSS-DEV reaches over 430MB/s of throughput when implemented in a Xilinx Virtex5 fpga with cpu and Ellisys USB protocol analysers running, which is 94% of the maximum value achievable in pure hardware bursts with no cpu or software overhead.
The controller has passed all available USB-IF verification tests with certified xHCI host controllers from NEC- and Fresco Logic and has been designed to meet the requirements of the USB specification for SuperSpeed peripheral controllers in its most current version - 1.0. According to Evatronix, the controller implements the OCP socket as the primary interface for both microprocessor and memory, while wrappers for popular system bus interfaces are available as a part of the delivery.
Dariusz Kaczmarczyk, USB product line manager at Evatronix, said: "Our latest release of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Peripheral Device controller shows our constant drive to offer the latest improvements in this highly popular technology to early adopters. We are currently offering a working single chip fpga solution that implements the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Controller with least cpu overhead. This is a great opportunity for our customers to develop applications that will utilise the high speed edge of USB 3.0 to the highest possible extent"
