EZ-USB™ SD3 USB 5 Gbps storage controller

Programmable USB 5 Gbps to storage controller with SD/eMMC memories and SDIO device support

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Overview

EZ-USB™ SD3 is a USB 5 Gbps to storage controller that allow developers to add storage to any USB port. It supports up to two independent storage ports which may be configured in any combination of SD, eMMC, or SDIO. The storage standards supported are SD3.0, eMMC4.41 and SDIO3.0. In addition, EZ-USB™ SD3 comes with built-in RAID which makes it a low-power, small-footprint RAID-on-chip (ROC) controller with SD or eMMC storage.

Key Features

  • Integrated USB 5 Gbps PHY
  • 32 USB endpoints
  • 200 MHz ARM926EJ-S core
  • Connectivity to I2C, I2S, UART, SPI
  • 10 mm x 10 mm, 121-BGA package

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Designing with EZ-USB™ SD3

EZ-USB™ SD3 comes with a general programmable interface (GPIF II) that can connect to a processor, an image sensor an FPGA or an ASIC. Users can benefit from the proprietary software with dedicated SDK including several FX3 firmware example projects, and a complete set of documentation to speed up significantly the development cycle. Once the design is completed, customers can take advantage of Infineon´s world-class customer support to review their schematics.

Tech support
EZ-USB™ FX3 SDK
Why choose EZ-USB™

EZ-USB™ USB 3.2 peripheral controller portfolio offers the lowest total cost (bandwidth per dollar) solution for any high-speed system; they shorten the time-to-market and lower the development costs by offering a turnkey solution including software and several design guides and documents, both for commercial and industrial applications. 

EZ-USB™ key applications

USB 3.x can be beneficial in many different industries such as factory automation, medical and life sciences, retail, and security and surveillance. Within factory automation, it can be employed in machine vision, production monitoring, quality inspection, vision-guided robotics, text/barcode recognition, sorting and logistics. In medical and life sciences it can be used in lab equipment and automation, microscopy, ophthalmology, dermatology, dentistry, 3D scanners for prosthesis creation, imaging procedures in surgery, and motion analysis and therapy. In retail, USB 5 and 10 Gbps (formerly known as "superspeed USB") can be used in ATMs, vending machines, kiosk systems, shelf inspection, and point-of-sale systems. In security and surveillance, it can then be employed in biometrics and recognition, people counting and tracking, asset management and law enforcement.

Industrial automation
Medical healthcare
USB product portfolio

Infineon´s EZ-USB™ peripheral controllers family offers the most comprehensive USB product portfolio in the industry. Since 1996, EZ-USB™ has led the industry by advancing features and performances in the programmable USB peripheral controllers, allowing developers to create USB devices to meet the highest performance demands in industrial and medical imaging applications. More importantly, Infineon’s premium customer support and long-term supply ensure your successful product life cycles to go beyond tens of years.

USB offering
About USB 3.x (formerly known as "superspeed USB")

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 (USB 3.1) and then to 20 Gbps (USB 3.2) – keeping pace with the insatiable appetite for speed from the most demanding applications.

Learn more about USB evolution

Designing with EZ-USB™ SD3

EZ-USB™ SD3 comes with a general programmable interface (GPIF II) that can connect to a processor, an image sensor an FPGA or an ASIC. Users can benefit from the proprietary software with dedicated SDK including several FX3 firmware example projects, and a complete set of documentation to speed up significantly the development cycle. Once the design is completed, customers can take advantage of Infineon´s world-class customer support to review their schematics.

Tech support
EZ-USB™ FX3 SDK

Why choose EZ-USB™

EZ-USB™ USB 3.2 peripheral controller portfolio offers the lowest total cost (bandwidth per dollar) solution for any high-speed system; they shorten the time-to-market and lower the development costs by offering a turnkey solution including software and several design guides and documents, both for commercial and industrial applications. 

EZ-USB™ key applications

USB 3.x can be beneficial in many different industries such as factory automation, medical and life sciences, retail, and security and surveillance. Within factory automation, it can be employed in machine vision, production monitoring, quality inspection, vision-guided robotics, text/barcode recognition, sorting and logistics. In medical and life sciences it can be used in lab equipment and automation, microscopy, ophthalmology, dermatology, dentistry, 3D scanners for prosthesis creation, imaging procedures in surgery, and motion analysis and therapy. In retail, USB 5 and 10 Gbps (formerly known as "superspeed USB") can be used in ATMs, vending machines, kiosk systems, shelf inspection, and point-of-sale systems. In security and surveillance, it can then be employed in biometrics and recognition, people counting and tracking, asset management and law enforcement.

Industrial automation
Medical healthcare

USB product portfolio

Infineon´s EZ-USB™ peripheral controllers family offers the most comprehensive USB product portfolio in the industry. Since 1996, EZ-USB™ has led the industry by advancing features and performances in the programmable USB peripheral controllers, allowing developers to create USB devices to meet the highest performance demands in industrial and medical imaging applications. More importantly, Infineon’s premium customer support and long-term supply ensure your successful product life cycles to go beyond tens of years.

USB offering

About USB 3.x (formerly known as "superspeed USB")

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 (USB 3.1) and then to 20 Gbps (USB 3.2) – keeping pace with the insatiable appetite for speed from the most demanding applications.

Learn more about USB evolution

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