Symwave's USB 3.0 Storage Controller Chosen for HotChips Symposium

Symwave Inc, a silicon supplier of system solutions for SuperSpeed USB devices said their USB 3.0 storage controller has been chosen by the HotChips Symposium program committee.

 

The technical paper will be presented by Gideon Intrater, Symwave’s Vice President of Solutions Architecture at the HotChips Symposium 2009 to be held in Palo Alto (News - Alert), Calif., August 23 to Aug. 25, 2009.

 

The symposium provides an opportunity for chip designers, computer architects, system engineers, press and analysts, as well as attendees from national laboratories and academia to mix, mingle and see presentations on the latest technologies and products.

 

Symwave has stated that its USB 3.0 storage controller device is designed to comply with the SuperSpeed specification revision 1.0 and it can stream data to and from a commercial external storage device at speed previously unattainable in legacy USB systems. The device supports USB 3.0’s data rate of 5Gbps with storage-specific IEEE (News - Alert) 1619 and IEEE1667 standards for encryption and authentication as well as legacy USB 2.0 devices.

 

According to Symwave, USB 3.0 specification is a rapidly emerging technology that enables high speed connectivity between consumer devices at up to ten times faster than current solutions. Operating at five gigabits per second, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 delivers higher data rates, lower power and maintains backwards compatibility with the more than ten billion legacy USB enabled consumer devices shipped to date.

 

The momentum around USB 3.0 is growing rapidly and will provide Symwave a great opportunity for their family of high-performance devices leveraging this innovative architecture.

 

Symwave had joined forces with SMSC to capitalize on the growth of USB 3.0.