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News Release from: NXP Semiconductors | Subject: ISP1301
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 October 2002
Transceiver handles non-PC USB uses
The ISP1301 is a USB On-The-Go transceiver chip to enable point-to-point communications between digital devices such as mobile phones, cameras, video recorders and PDAs.
The ISP1301 is a Universal Serial Bus (USB) On-The-Go (OTG) transceiver chip to enable point-to-point communications between digital devices such as mobile phones, cameras, video recorders and PDAs The new Philips transceiver can transmit and receive serial data at both full-speed (12Mbit/s) and low-speed (1.5Mbit/s) data rates, allowing a device to adjust data transmission speeds depending on the application, thus saving precious battery power
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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As the newest addition to the Philips family of USB OTG chips, the ISP1301 transceiver allows digital devices to connect directly to one another, without the use of a PC, to perform basic functions such as printing a photo or transferring a message from a digital phone to a PDA.
The Philips transceiver allows USB application specific ICs (ASICs), programmable logic devices (PLDs) and any system chipset with USB host/device function built-in (but without the USB transceiver) to interface with the USB physical layer.
Philips' complete range of USB OTG semiconductors are fully compliant with the USB Implementers Forum's (IF) OTG Supplement to the USB 2.0 Specification.
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"USB OTG brings innovative functionality to handheld devices, making them more valuable to consumer and business users alike", said Terry Remple, founder and co-chair of the OTG Working Group.
"The Philips USB OTG transceiver is the first transceiver to implement all of the features being requested by cell phone manufacturers, and will enable an early path to market for these and many other types of devices".
"The Philips ISP1301 chip is one of the first USB OTG transceivers to be made available in the market", said Dave Sroka, international marketing manager, Philips Semiconductors.
"By collaborating with key players in the PDA and cellular reference design market, and leading mobile phone baseband chip and IT vendors, Philips is able to drive USB technology and deliver innovative OTG compliant system solutions".
In addition to the new transceiver chip, Philips also offers a single-chip USB OTG controller (the ISP1362) and a complete USB OTG system developer's kit.
The ISP1362 is an OTG compliant USB 2.0 host and peripheral controller, allowing the chip to act as USB host, USB peripheral, or both functions simultaneously.
The system developers kit, based on Philips OTG semiconductors, simplifies the addition of USB OTG to handheld and mobile devices using the Intel PXA250 applications processor with Intel XScale technology.
Available in the very thin HVQFN24 package, samples of Philips ISP1301 transceiver are immediately available.
Volume production will begin in Q2 2003.
The Philips USB OTG developer's kit is currently available from Philips.
(This was Electronicstalk's Top Story on 16 October 2002).
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