April 19- 2003, Royal Philips Electronics announced the industry's first Universal Serial Bus On-the-Go (USB OTG) bridge controller chip. The Philips' ISP1261/2 USB OTG bridge controller allows manufacturers of mobile handsets, personal digital assistants, digital still cameras, digital video cameras, MP3 players and other devices that have built-in USB device capability to easily add OTG functionality. With USB OTG, consumers can easily connect devices such as a digital camera directly to a printer, or a PDA directly to a smart phone to synchronize information without requiring a host PC.
Based on patented hardware and software technology, Philips' bridge controller does not require manufacturers to change the original USB hardware in a portable system. The bridge controller can be used as a companion chip for a System on Chip (SoC) or CPU on the existing printed circuit board or designed in a separate dongle. Since manufacturers are not required to alter any hardware or redesign the system architecture, the Philips bridge controller allows them to bring products with full USB OTG features to market quickly.
The Philips' ISP1261/2 bridge controller is offered in a small package (4 mm x 4 mm), which fits well into the limited space of mobile devices. Through a unique power-saving architecture, power consumption is less than half that of OTG controllers in the market. Using cutting-edge process technologies allows Philips to offer the ISP1261/2 bridge controller at half the cost of a traditional OTG controller.
AvailabilityPhilips' ISP1261/2 will be sampling in Q3 2002 and will be in volume production in Q1 2004.
