USB 3.0 Controller Specifications and a Test
Posted August 21st, 2008 by Alex Ion
We’ve told you about USB 3.0 some while ago, but now we have most of the details after AMD, NVIDIA and a bunch others, came out with the controller specifications.
The most interesting things are that even though it will provide faster rates (10 times faster – up to 4.8Gbps) than USB 2.0 it will still be backwards-compatible. Trying to offer higher transfer speeds, it can both read and write at the same time from your portable storage device, while the downloads and uploads are separated on different lanes . Apparently, that’s going to help charge gadgets or any other devices much faster.
Now that you know most of the things about USB 3.0 a test is needed. Fresco Logic took care of that at IDF 2008 using a development platform based on Xilinx Inc’s FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), that managed to go over 350MBps. That’s not bad for a dry test, right ?
