Renesas SuperSpeed universal serial bus SATA3 bridge system-on-chip

Renesas has released its SuperSpeed universal serial bus (USB 3.0) SATA3 bridge system-on-chip that enables data transfer between a USB 3.0 host system and a Serial ATA (SATA) device in external USB storage equipment.

The new SoC is claimed to be the world’s first USB 3.0 bridge SoC that supports the UASP (USB attached SCSI protocol) that speeds up data throughput for large volumes of data.

USB 3.0 achieves data transfer speeds more than 10 times faster than the previous version of the standard, USB 2.0.

Support for SATA Revision 3.0 enables 6 Gbps high-speed data transfer

The bridge supports SuperSpeed USB transfer speeds of up to 5 Gbps, as well as the SATA Revision 3.0 6 Gbps bit rate achieving maximum data transfer performance of USB 3.0.

The device supports both the UASP and BOT protocols and achieves data transfer performance that exceeds 370 MBps in UASP mode.