[Nottingham] USB3 interface cards

[Martin]

On 21/12/11 10:09, Kurtis Brown wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> My understanding is that USB3 & USB2 are each on a separate Bus. So for
> each USB Host your USB2 devices will still share the same 480Mb/s bandwith. 
> 
> You can access the
> USB3 Specification here http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/usb_30_spec_092911.zip
> you want to take a look at section 3.1 for more understanding.
> The relevant passage is:
> 
> USB 3.0 is a physical SuperSpeed bus combined in parallel with a
> physical USB 2.0 bus
> 
> Hope that helps

Yes, and thanks for that.

Suspected so... So, looks like separate USB cards (root hubs) it is
going to have to be for gaining multiple 480Mb/s streams...

Cheers,
Martin

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