Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: NetChip Technology | Subject: NET2280
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 February 2004
USB controller enables
VGA docking station
MCT Corp's UVDock is a USB 2.0 Universal VGA docking station designed around NetChip's NET2280 USB 2.0 device controller
In addition to replicating the common ports of a PC, like Ethernet and serial ports, the UVDock also includes a fully functional VGA port. This VGA port can support displays up to 1024 x 768 with 16bit colour. This is useful for extending desktops to a second monitor as well as connecting mobile computers to larger monitors or projectors.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 February 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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All display information passes through a standard USB 2.0 connection.
'We were able to achieve XGA resolutions with the extreme bandwidth available in NetChip's NET2280', says Kevin Luong, MCT's Director of Sales and Marketing.
'The NET2280's glueless PCI interface made it straightforward to port traditional PCI functionality to Hi-Speed USB.' With the UVDock, users can now extend their notebook computers with a single, hot-pluggable, standard USB 2.0 connection.
Being USB bus powered, even power connections are unnecessary.
Previously, the only solutions involved multiple connections or delicate 200+ pin dedicated port replicators.
NetChip's NET2280 PCI to Hi-Speed USB 2.0 device controller is now available in production quantities.
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