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News Release from: NEC Electronics (Europe)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 November 2001
Support centre focuses on Hi-Speed USB
designs
NEC has established a dedicated European Support Centre to assist customers with their USB 2.0 designs in a move intended to accelerate the adoption of USB 2.0 into final products.
NEC has established a dedicated European Support Centre to assist customers with their USB 2.0 designs in a move intended to accelerate the adoption of USB 2.0 into final products NEC Electronics can also now supply a full range of Hi-Speed USB 2.0 components all of which are fully certified by the USB-IF (Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum) to meet the USB specification Revision 2.0 providing users with speeds of up to 480Mbit/s (40 times faster than the current USB 1.1)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Farrukh Siddiqi, Senior Manager for Marketing and Applications at NEC Electronics (UK) said, "Now that USB 2.0 enabled PCs are emerging with the new version of Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP, the market is set for a rapid increase in Hi-Speed USB products from PCs through to scanners, digital cameras and other data hungry devices -this is in addition to the wide variety of USB 2.0 products already available from leading manufacturers".
Siddiqi continued, "Our certified USB 2.0 silicon, complete reference designs and dedicated team of European based engineers will our enable our customers to bring a new product to the market in the time it takes to design a PCB.
NEC believes that this total solution is just what manufacturers want to step up new USB based product introductions".
NEC is one of the seven core members of the USB-IF and has been at the centre of USB 2.0 development since the standard's inception, including participating in the drafting of the USB 2.0 specification.
As part of NEC's initial development work on USB 2.0, the company developed a differential buffer for Hi-Speed (HS) transfer that could both transmit and receive signal amplitudes of 400mV and succeeded in achieving transfer rates of 480Mbit/s - this was later chosen by the USB-IF as the official HS transfer rate for the USB 2.0 specification.
NEC's uPD720100 host controller was the first component to be given the USB-IF Hi-Speed logo (certification to USB 2.0 specification) back in November 2000.
In June 2001, the company's hub controller, uPD720110 was also the first hub controller to be certified.
The company was later awarded special recognition by the forum for the company's continued contribution to the development of the standard.
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