PCI USB 2.0 Low Profile Card 3 Ports

USB specification version 2.0 (or USB Hi-Speed) is the next generation peripheral connection for personal computers. It is intended as an upgrade for USB 1.1. The new standard not only provides additional bandwidth for multimedia and storage applications but also offers plug and play capability and full backward compatibility for USB 1.1.

Specifications:

• Compliant with USB specification v.1.0, v.1.1, and v.2.0 (data transfer rate at 1.5/12/480 Mbps)
• Low Profile Bracket for Slimline PC
• Integrated VIA multi-PCI chipset build mutliple functions into a single chip that includes controllers for Low/Full speed data interface and one EHCI high-speed data interface.
• 3-external and 1-internal connector
• Tiered star topology supporting up to five tiers and 127 devices, no cable segment exceeding five meters
• 32-bits 33 MHz host interface compliant with PCI specification v.2.2
• USB 2.0 is 40 times faster than USB 1.1
• All downstream ports can handle high-speed (480 Mbps),. full-speed (12 Mbps), and low-speed (1.5 Mbps) transfer rate
• Supports PCI-Bus Power Management Interface specification v. 1.1
• Fully Plug-n-Play compatible
• OHCI (USB 1.1) supports Windows 98 / 98SE / Me / 2000 / XP
• EHCI (USB 2.0) supports Windows 2000 and above