Date:2013-12-03

    Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723, hereinafter referred to as Renesas) on March 9, 2011 announced the launch of two models named μPD720201 and μPD720202 host controller USB 3.0 LSI products. The products will be mainly used in computers or digital television and other electronic products, can effectively improve data transmission speed and lower power consumption. Through the introduction of new products μPD720201 and μPD720202, system designers can more easily build a high-speed data transfer capabilities, small size, longer battery life electronic equipment. Also, Renesas μPD720201 and μPD720202 provide drivers based on Microsoft Windows ® and Linux ® for free. USB on a global scale has been widely used to connect peripheral devices (such as a mouse and an external hard drive) and the interface standard PC and other digital electronic products. In recent years, an increase in the amount of data of the video content and the larger capacity recording media has increased the demand for high-speed transmission interface. In response to such demand, the development of a new generation of USB 3.0, transfer rate up to 480Mbps from the original 10-fold. USB 3.0 is being widely used in a growing number of PC and peripheral devices, such as mobile hard drives and USB flash memory. Recently, with read / write access to faster solid-state drive (SSD) products appear, for maximizing the potential of high-performance USB 3.0 provides a basis. In this context, the market is a strong need for host controller products provide higher effective transmission speed peripheral devices, such as tablet PCs and on netbooks and other mobile devices to reduce standby power consumption, while providing a compact package to make printed circuit boards made smaller. Than traditional hard drives and chipsets (supports PCI Express ® second-generation high-speed internal bus for PC) faster solid state drive (SSD) products appear, for maximizing the potential of high-performance USB 3.0 provides a suitable environment. In this context, the market is a strong need to be able to use peripheral devices to improve the effective data transfer rate by reducing standby power consumption to extend mobile devices (such as tablets and laptops) battery life, small package size in order to be able to carry a smaller circuit board Host Controller products. The new host controller for the Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 product family adds a new four-port product that provides more than the previous generation USB 3.0 Host Controller higher transmission speeds, lower power consumption and smaller size.