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More USB 3.0 Products & Hosts, H.264 over USB

Posted by Eric Huang on June 23, 2011

 

More USB 3.0

The USB-IF reported this week that 237 USB 3.0 products have certified.

First, This is Awesome.

237 products easily supports hundreds of millions of USB 3.0 products

Second, We need More.

Until now, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 certification has not been superspeedy.

Why?

1) Mostly to keep the quality of the USB 3.0 certified products at a high level
2) To make sure 3.0 works with 2.0

Certification tests had to be done at:

1) The USB-IF labs in Oregon or
2) at Quarterly USB-IF Plugfest held in Hawaii, Taiwan, or California.

I wish I could have gone to Hawaii. I’ve never been to Hawaii.

The Great Improvement is:

The USB-IF now says:
1) Take your USB 3.0 Device (peripheral) and have pre-testing done at a 3rd Party lab.
2) The USB-IF lab spot checks the results, and certifies the products officially.

This increases Certification throughput capacity by probably 10-20x.

So, thousands of USB 3.0 certifications can begin.

More USB 3.0

Asmedia and Etron have both announced they have USB 3.0 Host Certifications.

These companies join TI, Fresco, and NEC discrete Host providers.

This should keep the cost of Host implementations down

In fact, Global Sources says,

“Material overhead declined in the past months, thus pushing down USB 3.0 cable quotes. Host controller spending slipped to as low as $2 from $7 to $9 in 2008. This reduced cable rates by $0.50 to $1 compared with six months ago. The variant is still three or four times more expensive than USB 2.0 types, but prices are forecast to drop further”

Most new laptops have USB 3.0 as a standard feature (maybe not the cheapest laptops).

 

H.264 over USB

The USB-IF also released a new standard that allows for H.264 over USB.  It’s always been possible, this just standardizes it and makes it easier.  Read the press release here.

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This post is filed under USB 2.0, USB 3.0 Pricing, USB Certification.
 
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Covering the latest trends and topics in USB IP.

Eric started working on USB in 1995, starting with the world’s first BIOS that supported USB Keyboards and Mice while at Award Software. After a departure into embedded systems software for real-time operating systems, he returned to USB IP cores and software at inSilicon, one of the leading suppliers of USB IP. In 2002, inSilicon was acquired by Synopsys and he’s been here since. He also served as Chairman of the USB On-The-Go Working Group for the USB Implementers Forum from 2004-2006.

Eric received an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and an M.S. in Engineering from University of California Irvine, and a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Minnesota. and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Civil Engineering in the State of California


Michael (Mick) Posner joined Synopsys in 1994 and is currently Director of Product Marketing for Synopsys' DesignWare USB Solutions. Previously, he was the Director of Product Marketing for Physical (FPGA-based) Prototyping and has held various product marketing, technical marketing manager and application consultant positions at Synopsys. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the University of Brighton, England.
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