Recently, according to foreign media reports, Asix Electronics Corp. announced to acquire the i/o connection product line of Indian listed company moschip semiconductor technology Ltd., including all assets and intellectual property rights.
This acquisition will further strengthen the layout of AsiaInfo electronics in the field of embedded networking and bridging control chips. This product line is mainly used for computers or embedded systems. One or more serial ports, parallel ports, Ethernet, VGA and IrDA interfaces are expanded through PCIe, PCI and USB host.
The i/o connection product line purchased this time includes three series: mcs99xx PCIe bridge control chip, mcs98xx PCI bridge control chip and mcs78xx/mcs77xx USB bridge control chip. For the interconnection application between chips or systems, this product line provides low-cost, efficient and standard compliant solutions, which can be used in various embedded systems, such as remote access servers, network storage management, data acquisition systems, POS systems, handheld devices, on-board boxes, digital TVs, industrial control and building automation equipment.
Moschip semiconductor technology Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company, was established in 1999 with its headquarters and design center in Hyderabad, India. Operations, sales and marketing activities are conducted through moschip's wholly owned subsidiary in the United States. Moschip's main products include audio / video content processors and network device processors.
The PCIe bridge mcs99xx series is a single chip solution, which is mainly used to expand common control interfaces such as single / multiple serial ports, parallel ports, VGA, ISA and USB for computers or embedded systems with PCI Express X1 (single lane) interface. PCIe is a bus based on PCI standard, with a bandwidth of 2.5Gbps. It is used for high-speed communication between microprocessors and peripheral devices. It is incompatible with the electrical characteristics and hardware structure of PCI bus.
PCI bridge mcs98xx series provides low-cost solutions to expand common control interfaces such as single / multiple serial ports, parallel ports and isa for computers or embedded systems with PCI interfaces. PCI is a bus connecting microprocessors and peripheral devices. The mcs98xx supports 3.3/5v PCI bus signals. With a 33 MHz clock speed, it can be directly connected to the bus and significantly reduce the PCB size.
The USB bridge series mcs78xx/mcs77xx allows OEM customers and end users to simply and quickly connect existing devices to the peripheral interface of the new generation computer, eliminating the trouble of installation and setting. The bridge solution provided by AsiaInfo electronics enables the new generation of USB technology to continue to support traditional interfaces, including serial port, parallel port and IrDA
To assist customers in evaluating and developing various applications based on i/o connection product series, AsiaInfo electronics provides complete technical support services and hardware development application documents, manuals, reference circuit diagrams, PCB design guidelines and drivers.
The driver provided by AsiaInfo electronics supports windows 2000/xp/vista/7, wince, Mac OS and linux The Windows version driver has passed Microsoft WHQL. Complete drivers and extensive operating system support can simplify the difficulty of system design and shorten the time to market of OEM products.
Source of this article: electronic products world
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