Wireless USB Marketing Track Jeff Ravencraft

Wireless USB Marketing Track
Jeff Ravencraft
USB-IF President & Chairman
Wireless USB Promoter Group Chairman
Intel Corporation
Key Messages
• The UWB Ecosystem is delivering on its promise
• WUSB products using WiMedia radios will be
commercially available in the next 12 months
• These products will be:
• Compliant to the specifications
• Interoperable
• Adopted broadly in all segments
UWB Initiative Ecosystem
Convergence layer
for multiple protocols
180+ companies
(PC, CE, Cellular
Players)
UWB PHY and MAC
standardization
100+ Endorsed
MBOA PHY, MAC
Feb 04
1394 Protocol
Endorsed
WiMEDIA Platform
Sept 04
UWB in the Digital Home
Local high
throughput delivery
Wired / Wireless
Wired /Wireless
Wired / Wireless
Broadband
Wired /
Wireless
Long range delivery
wired & wireless
Long range delivery
wired & wireless
Wired /
Wireless
Wired / Wireless
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WiMedia UWB Architecture
Wireless
USB
Wireless
1394
WiMedia Convergence Platform
WiMedia MAC & PHY
UPnP/IP
From Research to Product
Intel “Ironsides”
Staccato
Gen 1 DVT
Wisair
Gen 2 EVT
Wisair
Gen 1 DVT
Wisair
Module
Radio PHY units shrinking from rack mount to silicon in 2005
Wireless USB Promoters and Contributors
Technology Requirements
Summary
• Bandwidth
• 480Mbps @ 3 meters
• 110Mbps @ 10 meters
• Scalable architecture & protocol (up to1Gbps and beyond)
• Power management (battery preservation)
• Sleep/Listen/Wake, Conserve under operation
• Tx/Rx power management
• Security (highly secure connection)
• Device secure association & authentication
• Low overhead, minimize performance impact
• Encryption through application
• Ease of Use (similar to wired USB)
• Easy installation & setup
• Backward compatible to wired USB
• Low cost implementation
Technology Requirements
Topology
• Hub-and-spoke connection
relationship
• Connection model is a
wire replacement
Up to 127 devices
• Point-to-point connections
• Between WUSB host
& peripheral
• WUSB Cluster
• WUSB Host with one or
more peripherals (up
to 127)
• WUSB Clusters may
co-exist within an
overlapping spatial
environment
Host scheduled data
communications
Dual Role Device connectivity
Bringing WUSB to Existing
USB Products: Wire Adapter
USB 2.0
Host Wire Adaptor: HWA
Could be a simple dongle
USB 2.0
Device Wire Adapter: DWA
State of the Art Adapters
Wisair 501 / 531 Chipset
• 480 Mb
• 8 Bands
WUSB is a Wire Replacement
• Association’s job:
• Connect the owner’s devices the way the owner
wants them connected (IAA)
• Security’s job:
• Match the security afforded by the USB wire
• Protect data in-transit
Cable Ends define user’s
connection choice
Cable protects data
in-transit
Making It As Easy And Protected As The Wire
WUSB Security
• Wireless USB needs security
• Maintain Asymmetric Host-centric model
• Maintain USB model of cheap/simple devices
• Keep complexity confined to host
• Minimal microcontroller or ASIC state machine
• Symmetric Association
• Device validates the host
• Host validates the device
• Wireless USB encryption will use AES-128
Association Model
Specification
• First time connection is the challenge
• Association must be secure and easy
• Three models being investigated are:
• USB cable model
• Numeric compare
• Near Field Communication (NFC) for future implementations
• Association Model Specification
• Definitive source for all technical and Implementation details
• Everything you need to build WUSB devices
• Enforced through compliance testing & logo certification
WUSB Certification
& Compliance
• Only WiMedia UWB supported by WUSB
• WUSB certification, compliance testing, and logo
licensing done by USB Implementers Forum
• Compliance test suites under development now
• Compliance guarantee compatibility between WUSB devices
• WiMedia will provide test suite for USB-IF to test for PHY,
MAC and WiMedia conformance
• USB-IF provides one stop compliance testing
& certification
• Un-plug fests planned
Market Trends
Specs and Products
Market Adoption
• Phy standard completed in Q3 2004
• 2005-2006
• Add-on modules for host
• MAC standard completed in Q2 2005
• USB2.0, PCI, PCIe,
ExpressCard
• WUSB spec completed in Q2 2005
• DWA for device
• UWB and WUSB Silicon in 2005
• 2006-2007
• Internal modules
• End-user products at end of 2005
• PC and CE will lead the adoption
Mobile market will follow
• PCI, PCIe (peripherals
and CE)
• WLAN and UWB on the
same module
WUSB: The 1 st Hi –Speed WPAN is Here !
What’s Coming in 2005
• Hold two WUSB Developers Conferences
• San Jose May 24 & 25
• Tokyo Japan in September
• Intel establish interoperability lab for
early products
• Make PDK systems available
• Insure interoperable Phy’s & MAC’s from
multiple vendors
• Define USB-IF Compliance &
certification program
WUSB Summary
• Broad Industry Support
• 300+ Developers engaged
• Wireless USB Specification is Final & released
• Products expected in the next 12 months
• WUSB Delivers the requirements for PC,
CE, and Mobile usage models
Thank You!