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Terminus Technology Inc. is a fabless IC design company founded in 2006 in Taipei, Taiwan. The company is highly research- and development-oriented and specializes in the design of cutting-edge integrated circuits (ICs) with a focus on performance, quality, energy efficiency, and total cost.
The company’s USB2 High-Speed Hub Controllers feature an advanced architecture and a robust physical-layer design. Thanks to sophisticated power management, these controllers deliver peak performance while keeping power consumption to a minimum, making them among the most efficient in their class.
SB hub controller from Terminus Technology
Terminus Technology offers a comprehensive series of USB 2.0 high-speed hub controllers for standard, embedded and multi-host applications. All devices are fully USB-IF compliant, integrating transceiver, LDO regulator (5 V → 3.3 V / 1.8 V), PLL, oscillator and power-on-reset. They use state-machine-based control without microcontroller, MTT or STT architecture as well as comprehensive test functions (scan chain, BIST for all AFE modules).
Overview of the controllers
| Parameters |  FE1.1 |
FE1.1s |
 FE2.1 |
 FE4.1 |
 FE8.1 |
 FE18.1 |
 FE12.1 |
 FE12.3 |
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| Ports | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4×4 | 7 | 4 |
| Package | LQFP-48 (7mm x 7mm), QFN-48 (6mm x 6mm), QFN-24 (4mm x 4mm) | SSOP-28 (10mm x 4mm), QFN-24 (4mm x 4mm) | LQFP-48 (7mm x 7mm), LQFP-64 (10mm x 10mm) | QFN-24 (4mm x 4mm) | SSOP-28 (10mm x 4mm), QFN-24 (4mm x 4mm) | LQFP-48 (7mm x 7mm), QFN-48 (5mm x 5mm) | QFN-24 (4mm x 4mm) | QFN-24 (4mm x 4mm) |
| Operating Temperature | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C |
| Extended Operating Range | -40°C – +85°C | -40°C – +85°C (QFN) | -40°C – +85°C (LQFP) | — | — | -40°C – +85°C (LQFP) | -40°C – +85°C (QFN) | -40°C – +85°C (QFN) |
| Key Feature | MTT1 | AEC-Q100 (QFN package only) | MTT1 | — | — | HSIC2 Up/Downstream | MTT1, HSIC2 Up-/Downstream Connectivity | OTG, Bypass Mode |
| Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief |
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1) MTT = Multi Transaction Translator 2) HSIC = High-Speed Inter-Chip
| Parameters | FE1.1 |
FE1.1s |
FE2.1 |
FE4.1 |
FE8.1 |
FE18.1 |
FE12.1 |
FE12.3 |
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| Ports | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4×4 | 7 | 4 |
| Package | LQFP-48, QFN-48, QFN-24 | SSOP-28, QFN-24 | LQFP-48, LQFP-64 | QFN-20 | SSOP-16 | LQFP-48, QFN-48 | QFN-24 | QFN-24 |
| Operating Temperature | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C | 0°C – +70°C |
| Extended Operating Range | -40°C – +85°C | -40°C – +85°C (QFN) | -40°C – +85°C (LQFP) | — | — | -40°C – +85°C (LQFP) | -40°C – +85°C (QFN) | -40°C – +85°C (QFN) |
| Key Feature | MTT | AEC-Q100 (QFN package only) | MTT | — | — | HSIC Up/Downstream | MTT, HSIC Up-/Downstream Connectivity | OTG, Bypass Mode |
| Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief | Product Brief |
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1) MTT = Multi Transaction Translator
2) HSIC = High-Speed Inter-Chip
USB hub controller portfolio from Terminus Technology
Terminus Technology, a Taiwanese fabless IC design house, specializes in high-speed serial bus technologies and offers a wide range of USB 2.0 high-speed hub controllers. These devices are fully compliant with the USB-IF specification revision 2.0, integrate all necessary analog and digital components (transceiver, 5 V → 3.3 V / 1.8 V LDO regulator, 12 MHz oscillator with PLL, power-on-reset) and deliberately do without a microcontroller – instead, an efficient state-machine-based controller is used. All controllers support comprehensive test methods such as scan chain (also for 480 MHz modules) and Built-In-Self-Test (BIST) for high, full and low-speed Analog Front Ends (AFE) to ensure the highest quality and reliability.
The portfolio covers all common application scenarios, from classic 4-port hubs to specialized multi-host and embedded solutions:
All components are characterized by low power consumption (thanks to LPM and selective clock gating), compact housings (QFN, LQFP) and high signal integrity. They are suitable for consumer peripherals, industrial automation, IoT gateways, server infrastructure and portable charging stations