San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Royal Philips Electronics today announced one of the semiconductor industry's first complete USB “On-The-Go” (OTG) system developers kits. Based on Philips OTG ICs, the kit simplifies addition of USB OTG to handheld and mobile devices using the Intel PXA250 applications processor with Intel XScale technology.

Unlike the other USB standards, USB On-The-Go allows a device to serve as both a USB host and USB peripheral. For example, a PDA can be host (master) to a printer in one instance and then be a peripheral (slave) to another device as information is downloaded. While this new OTG functionality adds some complexity to the USB standard, the Philips developer kit makes it easy to implement.

The Philips developers kit includes complete OTG software host stack with full driver support, a controller card based on the Philips OTG chip, OTG and host ports, plus OTG access and monitoring tools. The kit, which is based on the Accelent IDP (Integrated Development Platform) for the Intel PXA250 applications processor, is designed to support products using either Windows CE.NET or Linux as their embedded operating systems.

 
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