Evatronix And Soft-Mixed Signal Announce USB 2.0 Total Solution

- The silicon Intellectual Property (IP) providers, Evatronix SA and Soft Mixed Signal Corporation announced today the availability of the complete USB 2.0 solution that integrates USB 2.0 Controller IP from Evatronix and the USB 2.0 PHY IP from Soft Mixed Signal. Both companies have extensive experience in USB 2.0 designs and therefore the product, although new to the market, is fully mature in terms of its components.

Engineers at Evatronix and SMS put an extra effort to introduce a set of features that would make the joint solution consume as little power as possible.

The USB Controller IP implements configurable amount of memory for each endpoint, which could also be turned off for even less power usage, while a common buffer for OUT (Host IN) type endpoints saves power by taking less silicon area. Other configurable features include a programmable number of endpoints and the system bus width and type.

The USB PHY component is proven to be the smallest USB 2.0 PHY on the market and features a patent-pending multi-port implementation and clock distribution scheme to provide a very robust, low power and very small area multi-port solution for HDTV, set-top boxes and a variety of embedded systems. Furthermore, a proprietary power control scheme delivers extra power savings during full transceiver operation.

“Driven by a success of Device, Hub and On-The-Go Dual-Role Device controllers IP, we now want to give our customers a joint solution for straightforward implementation of the USB 2.0 interface in their SoCs,” said Dariusz Kaczmarczyk, USB Product Line Manager. “With Soft Mixed Signal, we are offering the market maturity of two independent and highly competitive products joined together as one, easily integrable solution.”

“Our Partnership with Evatronix enhances the options in the marketplace  with a  technology leading total solution, including full suite of software and firmware set to most optimal PHY offering in terms of area, power and proprietary features.” aid Omer Kal, President and CEO of Soft Mixed Signal Corporation.

Availability

The USB 2.0 Total Solution IP is available now from both Soft Mixed Signal and Evatronix, however, separate licenses are given for each of components.

About Soft Mixed

Signal Soft Mixed Signal Corporation develops and offers system level PHY (Physical Layer ) / Transceiver Semiconductor  IC solutions for LAN, WAN, SAN/Connectivity markets utilizing proprietary mixed signal and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies.  These include  LAN : Fast (100Base-T), Gigabit (fiber or copper), 10 gigabit Ethernet,   
WAN : SONET ( OC-3, OC-12, OC-48 ),  SAN/Connectivity : Fiber-Channel, PCI-Express, USB2.0,  NPFI / SPI 4.2 PHY , Serial ATA I &II, and SERDES for Backplane and chip to chip connectivity.
Soft Mixed Signal Corporation  offers these IC solutions in the form of Semiconductor Intellectual Property. Established in 1995,  Soft Mixed Signal Corporation  PHY licensees include some of most leading edge communications system companies in the world, and has been a participant and contributor of  several industry standard developments groups such as IEEE 802.3 projects.
Please visit our web site  for company and USB2.0 information : www.softmixedsignal.com or contact SMS at  1-408-654-9555

About Evatronix

Evatronix SA, founded in 1991 in Poland, develops electronic virtual components (IP cores) along with complementary software and supporting development environments. The company also provides electronic design services. Product lines cover a multitude of solutions from interface controllers and microprocessors to integrated System-on-Chip development platforms.
Evatronix IP cores are available directly or through the sales network of its strategic distribution partner, CAST, Inc.
Evatronix is headquartered in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, and employs over 75 engineers.
For more information about the company please visit the company’s web site at www.evatronix.pl or contact Jacek Duda at : +48 322311171 ext. 22 or jacek.duda(at)evatronix.pl.