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Section I: A brief history of USB
Section II: Super Speed USB (USB3.0)
Section III: The Future opportunities and challenges
of Super Speed USB
Section IV: USB3.0 Phy Characterization
I. History
Intel formed the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) in
1995 with other industry players to support and
accelerate market and consumer adoption of USBcompliant peripherals. Today, the USB-IF has over 700
member companies worldwide, and the Board of
Directors is comprised of representatives from HewlettPackard, Intel Corporation, LSI Corporation, Microsoft
Corporation, NEC Corporation and ST-NXP Wireless.
USB IFis a non-profit corporation. It was formed to
provide a support organization and a forum for the
advancement and adoption of Universal Serial Bus
technologies. The Forum facilitates the development of
high-quality compatible USB peripherals (devices), and
promotes the benefits of USB products that have passed
compliance testing.
The USB connectors have been one of the greatest
success stories in the history of computing, with more
than 2 billion USB-connected devices sold to date. But in
an age of terabyte hard drives, the once-cool throughput
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information faster if you connect it to a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port" on Microsoft Windows.
This has been attributed to several causes,
including drivers, certain cables specified as
USB 3.0 (problems disappeared when a different
cable was used).
If you have a USB 3.0capable computer and want to
make sure your next MP3 player or digital camera can
transfer tunes or photos in millseconds, then there is one
answer that is Super-Speed USB.
Super speed USB3.0 promises 10GPS Data transfers,
coming in 2014:
The trade organization behind the USB 3.0 specification
has announced a new upgraded spec that promises higher
data speeds over backwards compatible connections.
To compete with Thunderbolt connectors USB 3.0 is
planning to speed up to 10 Gbps in near future.
Thunderbolt, which moves data at up to 10Gbps in both
directions, appears mostly on Apple devices currently,
but devices tend to be more expensive than their USB
3.0-compatible counterparts. However, Thunderbolt does
have a strong ally in Intel, with the company pushing the
standard heavily.
To take advantage of the double-speed USB 3.0 interface,
devices such as computers, hubs, and digital cameras will
need new USB controller hardware. However, the new
version of USB 3.0 uses the same connectors, so existing
USB devices can be plugged into the higher-speed ports.
The new devices should be backwards compatible with
older USB hardware, though not at the upgraded speeds.
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REFERENCES
[1] Melissa J. Perenson, PC World, USB 3.0 Promises
Faster Speeds, Backward CompatibilityJan 6, 2009.
[2] SMSC USB 3.0 Position paper By SMSC.
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