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摘要

PLX Technology introduced SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) general-purpose peripheral controllers that bridge USB 3.0 to PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0, thus matching the high-performance 5 Gbps bus speed. The company's complementary USB software suite helps add a USB 3.0 peripheral port to PCIe-based systems, as well as convert PCIe endpoints to a USB 3.0 product. Existing designs with the PLX NET2282x Hi-Speed USB 2.0 controller can upgrade to the new USB338x product family with minimal or no software changes. Driver stacks are already available for operating system-independent applications, as well as for common operating systems.