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News Release from: LucidPort Technology | Subject: L800 wireless USB peripheral controller chip
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 February 2007
Chip controls wired and wireless USB
The L800 chip harnesses WiMedia UWB technology to interoperate with other UWB and Certified Wireless USB products at transfer speeds reaching 480Mbit/s
LucidPort Technology's L800 is thought to be the only certified wireless USB peripheral controller to fully support both wired and wireless USB The L800 chip harnesses WiMedia UWB technology to interoperate with other UWB and Certified Wireless USB products at transfer speeds reaching 480Mbit/s
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Aug 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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LucidPort Technology's L800 device controller chip is ideal for use in printers, scanners, digital camcorders, media players and other peripherals.
Wireless USB controller meets UWB specs
Harnessing WiMedia UWB technology, the L800 interoperates with other wireless USB products at transfer speeds reaching up to 480Mbit/s.
It supports compliant packet sizes, burst sizes, transfer sizes, and number of endpoints.
The L800 manages the protocol requirements of many USB class devices, wired and wireless.
It has specialised logic for encryption, as well as cable and numeric association.
This makes the L800 ideal for use in printers, scanners, digital camcorders, external hard disks, and other peripherals.
"Wireless USB peripherals still need a way to connect using wired USB".
says Reid Augustin, VP, Product Development at LucidPort.
"Retrofitting the new wireless features required on the wired USB port is not trivial".
The L800 eases this transition by using the same API (Application Programming Interface) to implement both the wired and wireless USB interfaces.
LucidPort provides a Reference Design Kit (RDK) which includes a PCI adapter board with the L800 and a UWB PHY module.
These boards effectively convert a PC into a USB Peripheral with a rich development environment.
Included sample drivers and peripheral side firmware can be used to configure the L800 as a standard USB-class device, like a hard disk or video camera.
Custom peripherals can be crafted with LucidPort's APIs.
These APIs abstract USB operations to reads and writes.
User guides, schematics, and BOM details are also shipped with the kit.
The L800 samples in April, 2007 with a lead free 108-ball BGA package (11 x 11mm, 0.8mm pitch).
The L800 is priced at $4.98 for 400,000 quantities.
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