Amedia Delivers USB Host Adapter Card.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 1998--The new USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. Simply Connect from Amedia offers huge improvements in device connectivity for Windows 98 users. The older limitations of only connecting as many peripherals as you had empty slots for and struggling to find available IRQ (Interrupt ReQuest) A hardware interrupt on a PC. There are 16 IRQ lines used to signal the CPU that a peripheral event has started or terminated. Except for PCI devices, two devices cannot use the same line. numbers are a thing of the past. Product Performance The USB Simply Connect host adapter Also called a "controller" or "host bus adapter," it is a device that connects one or more peripheral units to a computer. It is typically an expansion card that plugs into the bus. IDE and SCSI are examples of peripheral interfaces that call their controllers host adapters. See host. ushers in as new era of connectivity. Once installed, you can add up to 127 USB peripheral devices with ease. The system auto detects and configures devices, and you can even add or change peripherals while the system is running, providing the ultimate in simplicity. The USB Simply Connect operates at 12 Mbps for faster devices and 1.5 Mbps for low speed devices. The card has two cable ports and supports isochronous Time dependent. Real time voice, video and telemetry are examples of isochronous data. (communications) isochronous - /i:-sok'rn-*s/ A form of multiplexing that guarantees to provide a certain minimum data rate, as required for time-dependent data such as video or audio. , bulk, interrupt, and control data transfers over the same wires. Typical applications include scanners, printers, modems, monitors, digital cameras, keyboards, mice, joysticks, tape and floppy drives, digitizers, and even telephones. The USB Simply Connect is available now and has a suggested retail price of $59.99. About Amedia Amedia Microsystems Corporation provides a wide range of add-on products designed to enhance the performance of your system and peripherals, with an emphasis on bus controller cards and adapters. Amedia is a privately held U.S. owned company, and it sells its products to distributors, retailers, OEMs, and VARs in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and abroad. Corporate headquarters are at 2401 Walsh Ave., 2nd Floor, Santa Clara, CA 95051, Tel. No. 408/588-0099, Fax No. 408/980-0626, and website www.amedia.com.
CONTACT: Amedia Microsystems
Mike Del Vecchio, 408/588-0099
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