Manufacturers

SMSC

Overview

SMSC is a leading developer of Smart Mixed–Signal Connectivity™ solutions. SMSC’s feature–rich products drive a number of industry standards and include USB, MOST® automotive networking, embedded system control and analog solutions, including thermal management and RightTouch™ capacitive sensing.

About

SMSC has extensively expanded its product and technology portfolio, and has partnered with Arrow worldwide to bring our solutions to the variety of markets we serve through Arrow’s extensive reach and corporate resources.

Product Offerings

USB

SMSC is a leader in providing USB devices and is uniquely positioned to provide full USB solutions that include silicon, firmware, software drivers and reference designs. In addition to mixed signal design and software support for USB, we enable new solutions with low power and use of cost effective silicon process nodes. Our products serve the following markets:

USB mass storage
USB hubs
USB transceivers
USB to Ethernet controllers.
USB Flash media controllers

Ethernet

Ethernet is a ubiquitous, high–throughput, low–cost networking technology that can be found everywhere from factory floors to office environments to home entertainment systems. SMSC’s broad portfolio of Ethernet products is particularly well–suited to embedded applications supporting both PCI and local bus designs. As a reliable, worldwide supplier with significant expertise in embedded Ethernet, SMSC offers long–term support for a variety of products that can enable customers to quickly add high–performance Ethernet connectivity to their designs.

PC System & I/O Controller

SMSC has a proud history of integrated circuit product innovation with an emphasis on Personal Computer Input/Output (I/O) devices. SMSC’s portfolio of PC related products has grown to include:

USB hubs
Thermal management
Embedded and keyboard controllers
System management devices

Thermal Management

As computing power requirements increase, so does heat. With this heat comes the need to safeguard systems from these destructive temperatures. SMSC’s thermal management devices provide this first line of defense. These devices are stand–alone analog ICs that monitor system voltages and temperatures and also provide the capability to automatically control cooling fans to protect today›s high–heat small form factor designs.

Capacitive Touch Sensors

SMSC’s capacitive touch sensor products, featuring RightTouch™ technology, set a new standard in simplifying development, improving noise immunity, and lowering BOM costs in PC, LCD monitors, white goods and consumer electronic designs. These devices have been carefully designed to reject common noise sources such as backlight inverters, DC–DC switching regulators and wireless frequencies. They support a wide variety of interfaces such as I2C™, SMBus, SMSC BC–Link™ and SPI and also provide world–class ESD protection of ±8kV HBM with no external ESD protection circuits required.