NEC Electronics Introduces World's First USB 3.0 Host Controller!

NEC today announces the world’s first USB host controller for the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard supporting USB transfer speeds of up to 5Gbps.

The µPD720200 is 10 times faster than previous USB 2.0. Take a 25GB file for example, USB 2.0 requires 14 minutes to transfer the data, while USB 3.0 only needs 70 seconds. The enormous increase in transfer speed will enable system designers to transfer large-volume data quickly and without stress and develop a new generation of high-performance consumer electronic products.
The chip measures 10*10mm, and consumes at most 1W. µPD720200 is fully backward compatible with the USB 2.0, 1.1 and 1.0 versions of the USB standard, and also supports recent high-performance computer interfaces such as PCI Express and SATA.

The samples of µPD720200 host controller are expected to be available in June 2009 at US$15, and monthly production will reach one million units in September 2009. NEC plans to exhibit the new controller at the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference to be held in Tokyo, Japan from May 20-21, 2009.

Product Specification of the µPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller
- Based upon Universal Serial Bus 3.0 Specification Revision 1.0, which is released by USB Implementers Forum, Inc
- Based upon Intel's eXtensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) Specification Revision 0.95
- Based upon PCI Express® Base Specification 2.0, which is, released PCI SIG
- Supports the following speed data rate as follows;
Low-speed (1.5 Mbps) / Full-speed (12 Mbps) /
High-speed (480 Mbps) / Super-speed (5 Gbps)
- Supports all USB compliant data transfer type as follows;
Control / Bulk / Interrupt / Isochronous transfer
- Supports 2 USB downstream ports for all speeds
- Supports USB legacy function
- Supports PCI Express® related expansion card specification
ExpressCard® Standard Release1.0
PCI Express® Card Electromechanical Specification Revision 2.0
PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification Revision 1.2
- Operational registers are direct-mapped to PCI memory space
- Requires External Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) type FLASH PROM
- System clock: 24 MHz crystal or 48 MHz external clock
- 3.3 V and 1.05 V power supply
- PACKAGE : 176-pin plastic FBGA (10 x 10 mm, 0.65 mm ball pitch)

Pricing and Availability
Samples of NEC Electronics' µPD720200 host controller are expected to be available in June 2009 at US$15 each, along with free Windows® device driver software. Monthly production is expected to reach approximately 1,000,000 units in September 2009. Pricing and availability are subject to change without notice. More information can be found at http://www.necel. com/usb/en/ index.html.

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