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AnalogicTech Announces 500 mA Boost Converter that Provides USB Host Power in Portable Platforms

AnalogicTech, announced the AAT1275, a new type of power management IC that combines a 500 mA boost converter with a current-limiting load switch. By bringing together a regulated 5V, 500 mA output...  >>  

NEC Electronics Among the First in Industry to Deliver Certified Wireless USB Chips

NEC Electronics Corporation today announced that the company's µPD720170 Wireless USB host controller for PCI interfaces and µPD720180 Wireless USB device wire adapter (DWA) are...  >>  

Winbond America Introduces New USB Audio Controller IC Series for the Skype VoIP Market

Winbond Electronics Corporation America, has introduced the first two products in its new USB Audio Controller Series, W681306 and W681307. The W681306 is the world's first highly integrated IC...  >>  

Freescale expands ColdFire Portfolio USB Options for Industrial Connectivity

Universal serial bus (USB), a mainstay in the consumer market, is rapidly emerging as a de facto communications standard within the industrial marketplace. Helping designers respond to this market...  >>  

Cypress And UPEK Partner On Biometric Security Reference Design For Safe, Convenient Access To USB Flash Drives

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and UPEK®, Inc. today introduced a reference design for USB Flash Drives (UFDs) protected by fingerprint authentication technology, delivering the industry's...  >>  

Hi-Speed Universal Serial Bus On-The-Go controller

The ISP1761 is a single-chip Hi-Speed Universal Serial Bus (USB) On-The-Go (OTG) Controller integrated with the Advanced Philips Slave Host Controller and the Philips ISP1582 Peripheral Controller. [from NXP]  >>  

Atmel - USB Controllers

Atmel offers an extensive portfolio of USB products that include USB hubs, microcontrollers with integrated USB interface, and embedded USB hosts. These devices are designed specifically to hide... [from Atmel]  >>  

USB Drivers Etc.

Today, about 2 billion products are designed with USB ports, making USB the dominant I/O connectivity standard in the market. AMI is using its past experience with USB drivers and now is offering... [from American Megatrends]  >>  

The Maxim USB Laboratory

The Maxim USB Laboratory is a MAX3421E-/MAX3420E-based system using an ARM7 processor and example software. This application note describes the system and the software that runs it. Both a USB host...  >>  

From USB2.0 and audio switches to multimedia

Features, features, and more features! That is a theme that has emerged in the ultraportable market in the last few years. There is now a natural migration for multiplexing audio and data sources...  >>  

Universal serial bus

Xilinx low-power, cost-conscious Spartan™ generation FPGAs support and advance the development of digital consumer applications for home networking and information appliances.  >>  

USB Features and Applications

USB Products: transceivers, hubs, peripherals and controllers  >>  

USB transceivers

Our Certified USB products include small-footprint and lead-free solutions optimized for a wide range of applications, including cellular handsets and personal media players. To help designers get...  >>  

AN10339 UART serial interface through USB evaluation board

The UART serial interface through USB evaluation kit is a useful development tool. It comes with an evaluation board, firmware application code, and complete documents. The kit enables users to...  >>  

Artimi demonstrates latest Wireless USB solutions

Production-ready reference designs for Wireless Projectors, Monitors, and Hard Disk Drives, based on Artimi's fully certified Wireless USB chipsets.  >>  

Cypress Debuts PRoC LP Reference Design Kit For Wireless Mice, Keyboards And Dongles

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. introduced a reference design kit (RDK) that simplifies design of wireless mice, keyboards and dongles. The PRoC™ LP RDK provides easily replicated designs using...  >>  

NEC Electronics and Alereon Offer Wireless USB Hub Reference Design

Alereon, Inc., the ultrawideband (UWB) technology leader for mobile WiMedia and solutions based on Certified Wireless USB, today announced the availability of the AL4512 4-port Wireless USB Device...  >>  

CY4638 VoIP Demonstration Kit photo

Cypress's new CY4638 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) headset demonstration kit pairs the best-in-class interference immunity of Cypress's low-power WirelessUSB™ LP (CYRF6936)...  >>  

USS2828: USB 2.0 High-Speed Device Controller

The USS2828 is a general-purpose USB 2.0 device controller that supports both high-speed (480 Mbits/s) and full-speed (12 Mbits/s) data transfers and can be used in a variety of USB applications...  >>  

Flash µCs include full-speed USB 2.0

Incorporating a full-speed USB 2.0 interface, the PIC18F2455/2552/4455/4550 microcontrollers can use an external clock up to 48 MHz or an internal clock selectable from 31 kHz to 8 MHz. On-board...  >>  

USB modules deliver 8 or 24 relays

For switching data-acquisition channels, two USB modules provide Form C relays with 6-A output ratings.  >>  

Handheld datalogger works from USB port

Taking power from and sending data to a host via a USB port, the USB ADC-11 datalogger samples 11 channels at 20 ksamples/s and can store up to 1 million readings. The instrument is available with...  >>  

USB transceiver suits wireless devices

The MIC2555 USB On-The-Go transceiver chip enables point-to-point communications, without the use of a PC, between USB devices such as cell phones, digital cameras, printers, and PDAs. The chip...  >>  

Development Kit aids USB integration

The USB-inSync evaluation kit includes real-time features specifically designed for the evaluation of SCADA and ATE platforms. The package provides tools for adding USB communication to existing...  >>