CSSP solution enables SDIO connection to processors via USB

QuickLogic Corporation recently released an SDIO-to-USB catalogue CSSP solution that enables SDIO-based peripheral devices to connect to processors through a USB port.

"QuickLogic's USB-to-SDIO catalogue CSSP allows healthcare, industrial and infrastructure OEMs to make use of standard SDIO-based peripheral devices in their equipment, even if their processor is SDIO-port limited," said Paul Karazuba, QuickLogic's senior product marketing manager. "This latest connectivity solution ensures that OEMs can choose the best peripheral devices for the application, instead of being limited to making decisions based on interfaces that their processor supports natively," he added.

The QuickLogic SDIO-to-USB solution includes an SDIO host controller for interfacing directly to an SDIO-based Wi-Fi/Bluetooth device or module. It also has a USB 2.0 high-speed device controller with PHY for interfacing directly to the USB host on the processor. With this solution, an OEM can interface to the peripheral device using their current processor, potentially adding multiple new functions to their product while saving redesign time and costs.