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3.1 USB Serial Interface Engine (SIE)

The SIE allows the CY7C656xx to communicate with the USB
host through the USB repeater component of the HUB. The
SIE handles the following USB activity independently of the
HUB Control Block:
• Bit stuffing/unstuffing
• Checksum generation/checking
• ACK/NAK/STALL
• TOKEN type identification
• Address checking.

3.2 Hub Repeater

The HUB Repeater manages the connectivity between
upstream and downstream facing ports that are operating at
the same speed. It supports full-/low-speed connectivity and
high-speed connectivity. Per the USB 2.0 specification, the
HUB Repeater provides the following functions:
• Sets up and tears down connectivity on packet boundaries
• Ensures orderly entry into and out of the Suspend state,
including proper handling of remote wakeups.

3.3 Transaction Translator (TT)

The TT basically translates data from one speed to another . A
TT takes high-speed split transactions and translates them to
full-/low-speed transactions when the HUB is operating at
high-speed (the upstream port is connected to a high-speed
host controller) and has full-/low -speed devices attached. The
operating speed of a device attached on a downstream facing
port determines whether the Routing Logic connects a port to
the Transaction Translator or Hub Repeater section. If a low-
/full-speed device is connected to the hub operating at high-
speed, the data transfer route includes the transaction trans-
lator. If a high-speed device is connected to this high-speed
hub the route only includes the repeater and no transaction
translator since the device and the hub are in conformation
with respect to their data transfer speed. When the hub is
operating at full speed (the upstream port is connected to a
full-speed host controller), a high-speed peripheral will not
operate at its full capability. These devi ces will only work at 1. 1
speed. Full- and low-speed devices connected to this hub wil l
operate at their 1.1 speed.
4.0 Applications
• Typical applications for the HX2LP device family are:
• Standalone hubs
• Motherboard hubs
• Monitor hubs
• Advanced port replicators
• Docking stations
• Split-PC designs
• External personal storage drives
• Keyboard hubs
5.0 Functional Overview
The Cypress CY7C656xx USB 2.0 Hubs are a high-perfor-
mance, low-system-cost solution for USB. The CY7C656xx
USB 2.0 Hubs integrate 1.5k upstream pull-up resistors for full-
speed operation and all downstream 15k pull-down resistors
as well as series termination resistors on all upstream and
downstream D+ and D– pins. This results in optimization of
system costs by providing built-in support for the USB 2.0
specification.

5.1 System Initialization

On power-up, the CY7C656xx will read an external SPI
EEPROM for configuration information. At the most basic
level, this EEPROM will have the Vendor ID (VID), Product ID
(PID), and Device ID (DID) for the customer's application. For
more specialized applications, other configurat ion opt ions can
be specified. See section 9.0 for more details.
After reading the EEPROM, if BUSPOWER (connected to up-
stream VBus) is HIGH, CY7C656xx will enable the pull-up
resistor on the D+ to indicate that it is connected to the
upstream hub, after which a USB Bus Reset is expected.
During this reset, CY7C656xx will initiate a chirp to indicate
that it is a high-speed peripheral. In a USB 2.0 system, the
upstream hub will respond with a chirp sequence, and
CY7C656xx will be in a high-speed mode, with the upstream
D+ pull-up resistor turned off. In USB 1.x systems, no such
chirp sequence from the upstream hub will be seen, and
CY7C656xx will operate as a normal 1.x hub (operating at f ull
speed).

5.2 Enumeration

After a USB Bus Reset, CY7C656xx is in an unaddressed,
unconfigured state (configuration value set to 0). During the
enumeration process, the host will set the hub's address and
configuration by sending a SetCongfiguration request.
For high-speed multi-TT support, the host must also set the
alternate interface setting to 1 (the default mode is single-TT).
Once the hub is configured, the full hub functionality is
available.

5.3 Multiple Transaction Translator Support

After the CY7C65640B is configured in a high-speed system,
it will be in Single TT mode. The host may then set the hub into
Multiple TT mode by sending a SetInterface command. In
Multiple TT mode, each full speed port is handled indepen-
dently and thus has a full 12-Mbps bandwidth available. In
Single TT mode, all traffic from the host destined for full- or
low-speed ports will be forwarded to all of those ports. This
means that the 12-Mbps bandwidth is shared by all full- and
low-speed ports.

5.4 Downstream Ports

The CY7C656xx supports a maximum of four downstream
ports, each of which may be marked as usable or removable
in the extended configuration (0xD2 EEPROM load, see
section 9.2 or 0xD4 EEPROM load, see section 9.3).
Downstream D+ and D– pull-down resistors are incorporated
in CY7C656xx for each port. Prior to the hubs being
configured, the ports are driven SE0 (Single Ended Zero,
where both D+ and D– are driven low) and are set to the