Oxford Semiconductor Announces High-Speed USB Host and On-The-Go Controller; New Chip Bolsters Comprehensive Line of Embedded USB Connectivity Solutions.MILPITAS, Calif. -- Oxford Semiconductor Inc., a leading provider of high-performance connectivity solutions for consumer, storage and multimedia applications, and an innovator in the 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. connectivity arena since 1999, today announced the OXU OXU Optical Transmission Unit 210HP, the newest controller in its comprehensive line of embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. USB connectivity solutions. The OXU210HP is a single-chip solution which features high-speed USB host, peripheral and On-The-Go (OTG (1) See USB OTG. (2) (The OBJECTive Technology Group, Ltd., Alexandria, VA) An organization that was devoted to distributed computing and object technology. Founded in 1994, it augmented the object and Internet standards community and served as an intermediary between ) controllers integrated with high-speed transceivers. Simultaneous port operation, coupled with a 16/32-bit processor interface, allows the OXU210HP to achieve the high-performance connectivity necessary to quickly store and transfer data of all kinds - from photos to music to video. The product is also distinguished by advanced power management features including multiple clock domains and the ability to dynamically move between three power states. Rounding out the OXU210HP solution is the software support that Oxford Semiconductor customers have come to expect - including a full library of peripheral class drivers teamed with host, peripheral and OTG software for many of the most popular operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . "High-speed offers a 40x data rate enhancement over full-speed, but the hardware and software development necessary to bring a truly complete solution to market is challenging. We have taken our years of experience in embedded connectivity and have used it to design a single-chip controller with companion software that provides a complete, optimized high-speed USB solution for non-PC products," stated Paul Liu, Oxford Semiconductor product marketing director. "We are very excited to add this high-speed host hardware and software capability to our portfolio." Featuring host, peripheral and OTG connectivity, the OXU210HP allows a non-PC product to act as a host and sync or transfer files with a high-speed peripheral at optimal speed. As a high-speed peripheral, it also enables the product to quickly transfer or sync data with a PC (or other host). The availability of OTG provides manufacturers the ability to reduce product size by providing a single USB mini-port that can function as either a host or peripheral port dependant on Adj. 1. dependant on - determined by conditions or circumstances that follow; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress" contingent on, contingent upon, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on, contingent the application. Oxford Semiconductor recently announced the OXU140CM, an all-in-one connectivity solution that integrates full-speed host, high-speed peripheral and support for multiple storage interfaces, including the new CE-ATA interface and support for MMC See MultiMediaCard and Microsoft Management Console. and SD memory for expanded storage Additional memory in IBM mainframes that is not normally addressable by applications. Introduced for the 3090 series, the data are usually transferred in 4K pages from expanded storage to central storage (main memory). See hiperspace. . The OXU140CM is targeted at the growing market for portable consumer electronic equipment such as Portable Media Players and Smart Phones with CE-ATA drives. The new OXU210HP is another innovation to Oxford Semiconductor's line of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394 (FireWire) and USB connectivity controllers for leading-edge consumer electronics devices. The OXU210HP is sampling now with production volumes available in 4Q06. About Oxford Semiconductor Oxford Semiconductor designs and markets high-performance connectivity solutions for the storage, multimedia, communication, computing, and industrial markets. Founded in 1992, Oxford Semiconductor is a privately owned company with headquarters in Milpitas. Oxford Semiconductor recently acquired TransDimension, a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. based in Irvine, Calif. TransDimension provides USB connectivity solutions and software for embedded applications An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. . As the market leader in IEEE1394 (FireWire) and USB interface controllers for direct attached storage applications, Oxford Semiconductor has shipped more than 10 million devices, and today supplies all of the world's major external storage manufacturers. Oxford Semiconductor also has a strong reputation in high-speed serial communication chips, and offers complete solutions for bridging between a wide range of standard computer interfaces. Through its FireWire audio controllers, Oxford Semiconductor has led the development of breakout boxes, external sound cards and multi-channel speaker systems, providing laptop users with quality sound for the very first time. More information about Oxford Semiconductor can be found at http://www.oxsemi.com. |
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