USB 3.1 Chips in Laptops I’m super excited to report that USB 3.1 Gen 2 is now shipping (will be shipping soon) in laptops. Yes Laptops! This is about 6 months before I expected it to happen. You’ll now find it in MSI, Gigabyte, Acer, and Lenovo models. These 4 laptops all appear to use […]
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Morten Christiansen authored today’s blog on the industry’s first plugfest earlier this month. At this exciting event, USB Engineers (no marketing people generally) bring their products on carts, and go from hotel room to hotel room interoperating their products with stationary products. Morten as spent a lot of time writing and contributing to standards at […]
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The State of USB – Part 1 – USB 3.1 and USB Type C (USB-C) How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb. – None, they just define darkness as the new industry standard. How do you make a hot dog stand? –Steal its chair. What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? – A […]
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How will USB be used in IoT – Part 1 of a 3 part series Two cupcakes sitting together in the oven. One says to the other “Wow, it’s getting hot in here.” The other cupcake says, “Oh my gosh! A talking cupcake!” The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the huge market of product […]
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Hybrid IP Prototyping and USB 3.1 ahead, but first an opening joke An old man thinks his wife is losing her hearing. He calls the doctor about it and the doctor says he can do a little experiment to determine the severity, “Ask her a question from the next room in a normal tone of […]
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Great news! USB 3.1 kicks off the new year in real products at CES 2015. Nokia demonstrated its the world first mobile device with the Type-C connector. It’s the Nokia N1 Tablet. Don’t waste your time looking for videos of this on YouTube. They don’t exist, just junk videos (but if you find a real […]
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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. 
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.