OXCB950

32-bit PC card bridge to serial port

© 2008 Oxford Semiconductor

Web: www.oxsemi.com

July 2008, REV. 1.0

Description

Combining

Oxford

Semiconductor’s

high

performance UART and 32-bit PC Card

technology, the OXCB950 is the ideal connectivity

solution for products that need to bridge serial

devices to 32-bit PC Card interfaces including:

Cellular CDMA/GSM/GPRS, GPS, and Bluetooth

wireless data cards.

This highly integrated device is backed by

certified device drivers, for a wide range of

operating

systems,

to

deliver

ultimate

performance with reduced design cycles and

accelerated time to market.

The OXCB950 is a single chip serial port solution

for 32-bit PC Card based serial connectivity and

bridging applications. The device incorporates

Oxford Semiconductor’s high performance,

feature-rich UART technology that combines the

industry’s fastest baud rates and deepest FIFOs

with unrivalled flexibility. It adds up to a class

leading serial connectivity solution.

Features

o

High performance UART with peak

asynchronous data rates up to 15Mbps

o

RS232/422/485 full and half duplex

interfaces

o

Deep 128-Byte receive/transmit FIFOs

o

Full modem interface with hardware out of

band flow control

o

Automated Xon/Xoff in-band flow control

o

Flexible clock prescalar allows for a wide

range of baud rates

o

Infra-red (IrDA) receive and transmit

operation

o

2 GPIOs

o

PCI 2.2 and Power Management 1.0 and PC

Card 7.0 compliant

o

Software compatible with industry standard

16C550 type devices

o

3.3V operation

o

100 TQFP package

o

Commercial temperature range (0 to +70°C)

o

Certified device drivers for a wide range of

operating systems

Development Support

Design and evaluation of the OXCB950 is easy

with an available evaluation kit that includes

everything needed for PC installation and

evaluation. The kit includes Oxide, an intuitive

graphical user interface development tool that

provides simple ‘point and click’ feature

selection and text box entry for fast, error free

customization with minimal software expertise.

Ordering Information

Device

Development Kit

OXCFB950B

EV-OXCB950