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Thursday, 04 December 2008 21:57 |
Do you want to access a USB flash drive (or other mass storage class device) from your embedded application? Maybe you need to log data to the flash drive or maybe you want to be able to load new configurations or new firmware from the flash drive. This workshop will cover:
- USB fundamentals
- USB host basics
- Mass storage class basics
- Overview of USB mass storage class embedded host solutions
- Hands-on exercises based on the Cypress Semiconductor EZ-Host (CY7C67300)
When: December 17, 2008 (8:00am – 12 noon) (lunch to be provided)
Where: Mel Foster
7566 Market Place Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Who: Co-sponsored by:
- J. Gordon Electronic Design
- Mel Foster Company
To register: Call Pam at 952-941-9790 or email at
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Bring your laptop. We will load all the tools you need for the hands on exercises at the workshop. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 23:10 |
J. Gordon Electronic Design personnel attended the first USB 3.0 Developers Conference held in San Jose, CA on Nov 17-18, 2008. During the conference, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) made public the long awaited USB 3.0 specification which can be downloaded from their site at http://www.usb.org. According to USB-IF personnel, the event was well attended and drew at least twice the number of attendees as any prior USB Developers Conference.
One key feature of the new USB 3.0 specification is the addition of a new faster data transfer rate called "Super Speed" with a theoretical data rate of ~5 Gb/sec. This represents approximately a 10x improvement over the USB 2.0 "High Speed" data rate of 480 Mb/sec.
To accomplish this, the USB 3.0 specification adds 5 additional wires to the traditional USB cable and creates a second bi-directional bus that is, by many accounts, similar to PCI Express. USB bus power limits have been raised from 500 mA to 900 mA, and the entire power management mechanism has been re-thought and enhanced to maximize power efficiency. From a software perspective, the host controller driver will need significant changes; however, great pains were taken to minimize the effects on existing USB class and peripheral drivers. Targeted applications for the new Super Speed data rate are faster Mass Storage Class applications and streaming high-definition video.
According to Greg Burk, VP of Engineering at J. Gordon Electronic Design, a handful of vendors were demonstrating early USB 3.0 implementations in FPGAs that were operational and that are available for early adopter licensing. In addition, he indicated that there were multiple vendors of USB 3.0 Protocol Analyzer tools demonstrating functioning units at the conference.
The timetable for early silicon implementations for developers was advertised as mid 2009, with the first devices to customers expected late 2009 or early 2010. |
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Monday, 17 March 2008 23:22 |
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J. Gordon Electronic Design continues to expand its capacity and capabilities through the addition of new employees. Our latest additions are Kurt Raichle and Nathan Brandt. Kurt brings to us over 14 years' experience in complex instrumentation hardware designs and project management of large projects with budgets of over $1M. Nate brings significant FPGA and hardware design experience. |
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