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Looking for USB host chip with PCIe

Started by Allan Herriman September 6, 2010
Hi,

I'm finding it hard to locate a suitable device for a new design of mine.

The hypothetical part would be a PCI Express endpoint (x1, rev 1 or rev 2) 
to two host ports of UsB2.

I've looked at:

- Renesas/NEC μPD720200 (2xUSB3)
- PLX OXPCIe200 (2xUSB2+UART+GPIO)
- Pericom PI7C9X442SL (4xUSB2)
- Moschip MCS9990 (4xUSB2+GPIO)

These would all do the job, however they are either in BGAs with a 0.65mm 
pitch, or QFPs with a 0.4mm pitch.  Such fine pitches will increase 
manufacturing costs more than I'd like.

Does anyone know of other UsB host controllers?

TIA,
Allan
On Sep 6, 7:13=C2=A0pm, Allan Herriman <allanherri...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm finding it hard to locate a suitable device for a new design of mine. > > The hypothetical part would be a PCI Express endpoint (x1, rev 1 or rev 2=
)
> to two host ports of UsB2. > > I've looked at: > > - Renesas/NEC =CE=BCPD720200 (2xUSB3) > - PLX OXPCIe200 (2xUSB2+UART+GPIO) > - Pericom PI7C9X442SL (4xUSB2) > - Moschip MCS9990 (4xUSB2+GPIO) > > These would all do the job, however they are either in BGAs with a 0.65mm > pitch, or QFPs with a 0.4mm pitch. =C2=A0Such fine pitches will increase > manufacturing costs more than I'd like. > > Does anyone know of other UsB host controllers? > > TIA, > Allan
MPC8308 and a bunch of other chips in the MPC8xxx family. That gets you 0.8mm pitch BGAs. Somewhere there may be a 1mm pitch BGA processor with the features you want. But if you want TQFP or something like that, I doubt that you'll find anything at all with PCIe. Chris
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:22:27 -0700, Chris Maryan wrote:

> On Sep 6, 7:13&nbsp;pm, Allan Herriman <allanherri...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm finding it hard to locate a suitable device for a new design of >> mine. >> >> The hypothetical part would be a PCI Express endpoint (x1, rev 1 or rev >> 2) to two host ports of UsB2. >> >> I've looked at: >> >> - Renesas/NEC &mu;PD720200 (2xUSB3) >> - PLX OXPCIe200 (2xUSB2+UART+GPIO) >> - Pericom PI7C9X442SL (4xUSB2) >> - Moschip MCS9990 (4xUSB2+GPIO) >> >> These would all do the job, however they are either in BGAs with a >> 0.65mm pitch, or QFPs with a 0.4mm pitch. &nbsp;Such fine pitches will >> increase manufacturing costs more than I'd like. >> >> Does anyone know of other UsB host controllers? >> >> TIA, >> Allan > > MPC8308 and a bunch of other chips in the MPC8xxx family. That gets you > 0.8mm pitch BGAs. Somewhere there may be a 1mm pitch BGA processor with > the features you want. But if you want TQFP or something like that, I > doubt that you'll find anything at all with PCIe.
Sorry I didn't make it clearer - I'm not after a processor, just a peripheral to attach to a single lane of PCIe. 0.8mm pitch BGA would be fine. I've also seen plenty of plug in PCIe cards that have a PCIe to PCI bridge, then a PCI to 4 (or more) host ports of USB. That would get the job done, but I'm after a single chip due to area constraints. Cheers, Allan