EDN’s 20th annual Innovation Awards Finalists
-- EDN, February 18, 2010
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&& PREVIOUS FINALIST | MAIN | NEXT FINALIST >> Category: Silicon Intellectual Property Finalist: DesignWare SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP, Synopsys  The silicon-proven Synopsys DesignWare® SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP solution offers the industry’s most comprehensive solution „Ÿ from instantiation of the IP on-chip all the way to certification and production test – saving designers considerable cost and lowering the risk of acquiring and integrating the IP separately. Synopsys’ complete solution, consisting of digital controllers, PHY, verification IP, virtual platform and production test and debug software, speeds time-to-market and enables ease-of-use. Innovations that go beyond what is required by the USB 3.0 specification include: support for a wide range of cost-effective reference clocks, completely asynchronous at-speed loop-back testing, the ability to test RX eye compliance after the receive equalizer during production test on any digital tester, on-chip RX sampling scope to help debug signal integrity issues, a virtual platform for early software development, and vertification of the entire solution through a commercial platform to ensure compliance to the USB 3.0 specification. The IP helps designers deliver an enhanced user experience through better performance and faster data transfer speeds between their electronic devices. For example, a 27 GB high-definition movie can be transferred from a PC to a portable device in approximately one minute utilizing a SuperSpeed USB interface, compared to 14 minutes using a Hi-Speed USB interface. |
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