EZ-USB™ FX3S USB 5 Gbps Peripheral Controller with Storage Interface
USB 5Gbps to 32-bit data bus with ARM9 and storage, SD/eMMC memories and SDIO device support
Infineon EZ-USB™ FX3S offers USB 5Gbps connectivity together with a powerful ARM® Cortex® and integrated storage host controllers, enabling developers to add support for SD/eMMC memories and SDIO devices to their systems. It comes with a fully configurable general programmable interface (GPIF II), which can interface with virtually any processor, ASIC, image sensor, or FPGA with a parallel port.
- Integrated USB 5Gbps PHY
- 32 USB endpoints
- General programmable interface
- 2 secure digital (SD) I/O
- Supports UAS, MSC and HID
- 200 MHz ARM926EJ-S core
- Connectivity to I2C, I2S, UART, SPI
- 10 mm x 10 mm, 121-BGA package
- Lowest total cost (bandwidth per dollar) solution for any high-speed system
- Quick time-to-market with low development costs
- Turn-key solutions on industrial standards
Based on the proven EZ-USB™ FX3 platform, EZ-USB™ FX3S leverages EZ-USB™ FX3’s familiar ecosystem and package to reduce your time to market and design complexity. EZ-USB™ FX3S has a fully configurable general programmable interface (GPIF II), which can interface with virtually any processor, ASIC, image sensor, or FPGA with a parallel port. It provides easy and glueless connectivity to popular industry interfaces such as synchronous slave FIFO, asynchronous SRAM, asynchronous and synchronous address data multiplexed interfaces, and CompactFlash. Additionally, users can define their own custom master and slave interfaces using Infineon's GPIF II (general programmable interface) designer tool. EZ-USB™ FX3S comes with complete firmware to support USB RAID 1 disk designs.
EZ-USB™ FX3S supports up to two storage ports allowing developers to greatly expand their system capabilities. It supports SD 3.0 (UHS-I), eMMC 4.41, and SDIO 3.0 standards. It gives users full flexibility in terms of simultaneous data paths (between U-Port and S-Port, between P-Port and S-Port, between U-Port and P-Port), and it also allows the system to do data storage and data transfer at the same time.
It can support up to 2 TB SDXC cards giving tremendous data capacity: by using two eMMC devices in parallel, developers can theoretically support up to 208 MBps of data storage bandwidth. Using SDIO 3.0, developers can greatly expand their system capabilities to support features such as Wi-Fi, GPS, LTE, etc.
- Read the getting started with FX3 Application note and USB RAID 1 Disk Design Using EZ-USB® FX3S Application note
- Purchase the FX3S RAID-on-Chip Dongle or the FX3S Development Kit from the Pactron Store)
- Download the FX3S Software Development Kit
- Start your first FX3S design and refer to the SuperSpeed code examples
- Get your schematics reviewed by using the Online Tech Support Case System solutions
Infineon´s family of EZ-USB™ peripheral controllers offers the most comprehensive USB product portfolio in the industry. Since 1996, it has led the industry by advancing features and performances in programmable USB peripheral controllers, allowing developers to create USB devices to meet the highest performance demands.
More importantly, Infineon’s premium customer support and long-term supply ensure that successful product lifecycles go beyond tens of years. EZ-USB™ portfolio offers the lowest total cost (bandwidth per dollar) solution for any high-speed system, shortens the time to market, and lowers the development costs by offering a turnkey solution including software and several design guides and documents, for commercial and industrial applications.
Since its introduction, USB has developed very quickly, evolving from the original 1.0 to the 2.0 by increasing by 40 times the data rate. With the continual push for higher speed came USB 3.0, which offered yet another 10x speed increase, reaching 5 Gbps.
High-capacity hard disk drives and high-speed cameras started taking advantage of the high data rate and made USB the go-to interface for storage, video streaming, and data acquisition applications. Since then, the USB bandwidth has been doubling every 4 years – from 5 Gbps to 10 Gbps, and then to 20 Gbps – keeping pace with the insatiable appetite for speed from the most demanding applications.
