uSB 3.0
imagE: ShuttErStock
bringing SuperSpeed connectivity to mobile devices
With the rise of rich multimedia content on everything mobile, users can leverage usb 3.0’s ultrahigh speed for moving large amounts of commercial and user-generated content.
By Vikas Dhurka an D ste Ven Chen • Cypress semi Con DuCtor Corp
s mobile handheld devices continue to become essential parts of our lives, developers are inventing new applications every day to support our on-the-go lifestyles. Smartphones and tablets, for example, are increasingly finding use in media playback. Improving the consumption and transport of content, however, has proved to be one of the most challenging tasks. As a result, improved storage capacity and datatransfer rates are both crucial in mobile-system designs. Although the storage capacity of mobile devices doubles every year to keep up with increasing content sizes, datatransfer rates remain frustratingly low.
A
40 EDN EUROPE | JUly 2012
www.edn-europe.com
http://www.edn-europe.com
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of EDNE July 2012