EZ-USB™ FX3 USB 5 Gbps Peripheral Controller
USB 5Gbps to 32-bit data bus with ARM9, adding USB 3.0 connectivity to any system
Infineon's EZ-USB™ FX3 is the industry’s most versatile USB peripheral controller which can add USB 5Gbps connectivity to virtually any system.
The second-generation general programmable interface (GPIF II) of EZ-USB™ FX3 can connect to a processor, image sensor, FPGA, or ASIC. Users can program it to behave like a FIFO, an asynchronous SRAM, an address/data multiplexed interface, a CompactFlash, or a proprietary interface.
- Integrated USB 5Gbps PHY
- 32 USB endpoints
- General programmable interface
- 200 MHz ARM926EJ-S core
- Connectivity to I2C, I2S, UART, SPI
- 10 mm x 10 mm, 121-BGA package
EZ-USB™ FX3 comes with a general programmable interface (GPIF II) that can connect to a processor, image sensor, FPGA, or 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.
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.
USB 3.2 can be beneficial in factory automation, medical and life sciences, retail, and security and surveillance.
Within factory automation, it can be used for machine vision, production monitoring, quality inspection, vision-guided robotics, text/barcode recognition, and sorting and logistics.
In medical and life sciences, it can be used in lab equipment and automation, microscopy, ophthalmology, dermatology, dentistry, 3D scanners for prosthetics creation, imaging procedures in surgery, and motion analysis and therapy.
In retail, USB 3.2 (formerly known as "Superspeed USB") can be beneficial for ATMs, vending machines, kiosks, shelf inspection, and point-of-sale systems.
In security and surveillance, it can be used in biometrics and recognition, people counting and tracking, asset management, and law enforcement.
Machine vision for industrial automation is a big and diverse market that has enjoyed double-digit annual growth in the past 10 years. With increasing sophistication of machine learning and the abundance of high-speed cameras, machine vision is expected to continue its growth trajectory in the next 10 years, touching even more applications and industries.
USB 3.2 is the heart of machine vision, ensuring flawless imagining and video streaming from 5 Gbps onwards while at the same time proving power-over-cable convenience, plug-and-play simplicity, and software interoperability.
- Read the getting started with FX3 application note and review the FX3 collateral guide for a system-level overview of a design using FX3
- Purchase the new SuperSpeed explorer kit (CYUSB3KIT-003) or the FX3 development kit (CYUSB3KIT-001)
- Download and install the relevant setup file which includes:
- Documentation for the CYUSB3KIT-003 SuperSpeed explorer kit
- FX3 software development kit (SDK) which has many FX3 firmware example projects
- Start your first FX3 design
- Get your schematics reviewed using the Online Tech Support Case System
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.
