Date: 16/09/2010

Symwave and Fresco Logic demos speed of 370MB/s on USB 3.0

Symwave and Fresco Logic have sucessfully demonstated there USB 3.0 system achieving over 370MB/s. The Fresco FL1009 Host controller is connected to a USB 3.0 external storage device controlled by Symwave's SW6318 USB 3.0 SuperSpeed RAID Storage controller, and a pair of solid state drives (SSDs). The 370MB/s performance is acheived by combining Fresco's xHCI 1.0 bus driver and an enhanced mass storage driver provided by Symwave or MCCI.

"Symwave has been a pioneer in achieving the industry's highest performance USB 3.0 storage solutions," said Robert McVay, Chief Technology Officer, Fresco Logic. "As the provider of the world's first USB 3.0 integrated RAID controller, along with world-class performance enhancing software, Symwave's unique experience allows us to demonstrate the industry-leading capabilities of our latest host controller."

"It has been an exciting collaboration with Fresco Logic. Their host controller has redefined the boundaries of SuperSpeed performance, enabling us to unleash the performance of our storage solutions," said Christopher Thomas, Founder and Chief Technical Office, Symwave. "Fresco Logic will continue to be a critical partner as we work together to accelerate the migration to USB 3.0 as the ubiquitous worldwide connectivity technology."

Fresco Logic is offering semiconductor chips for USB3.0 host and devices solutions. In August 2008 Fresco had demonstrated USB3.0 real time data transfer on its FPGA development platform