Pericom USB 3.0 5Gb Signal Conditioning Family

Pericom Semiconductor
Corporation announced the expansion of its USB
3.0 5Gb ReDriver Signal Conditioning product family.

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This additions offer the smallest footprint at 2mmx2mm, and lowest power in both operating (158mW) and all important
slumber mode (3.63mW), making them suited for battery powered mobile
devices, such as tablets, smartphones, and notebooks. AC powered
platforms such as servers and networking switches also benefit since
power and space savings are important.

The ReDriver family enables end customer platform designers to
extend the PCB trace or cable length and preserve signal integrity. The extra signal margin can help assure that the platform will
recognize and connect to a peripheral USB 3.0 device at USB 3.0
speeds.

"Mobile device chipsets typically have lower signal strength,
so our smaller, lower power ReDrivers are being adopted to handle the
external cable and still meet USB 3.0 standards compliance," said
Bill Weir, senior director for Pericom’s Connect Products Group. "Our product roadmap will soon offer even lower power and lower
voltage options in the same pinout for seamless transition, and
continue our performance tradition of full standards compliance."

End customer platforms include tablets, smartphones, notebooks,
desktop, docking stations, workstations, servers, storage, embedded,
networking, consumer (camera, DVR, etc), HDD/SSD, and other platforms
that are moving to the USB 3.0 serial protocol. USB is by far the
most widely used serial protocol in the world, offering transfer
speeds up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0. GII (Global
Information, Inc – Nov, 2012) forecasts that global market for
USB 3.0 devices will grow more than 500% through 2016, with over 2.5 billion USB 3.0-enabled products being shipped.

Availability

PI3EQX501 (1 channel), PI2EQX502 (1 port), – samples, design
kit, production quantities – now.

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