Synopsys performs the first demo of usb 3.2

Last September 2017, the USB Implementers Forum published the USB 3.2 standard that will come to the market soon, to offer a performance increase of 2 times compared to the current USB 3.1 Gen2 specification. Now, Synopsys has made the first demonstration of this technology.

Synopsys demonstrates what USB 3.2 is capable of

The USB 3.2 standard will take advantage of the reversible nature of the USB Type-C connector, to offer a higher transfer speed, thanks to all the data lanes included in this type of connection. As usual, backward compatibility will be maintained, which means that USB 3.2 will be compatible with existing USB 3.1 Type-C data cables.

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Adoption of the new USB standards is slow, so it is expected to take quite a few years for the USB 3.2 specification to become common among users. There is more to see how long it took USB 3.1 to be present on the PCs of all users. Synopsys has taken the first step towards the adoption of USB 3.2, conducting the first demonstration using an FPGA, to act as a storage medium while using a standard USB 3.1 cable, to transfer a 1.6 GB per second data stream to a PC with Windows 10.

Synopsys has not yet indicated when companies will be able to license the implementation of USB 3.2, or when devices with this type of connection will be available to consumers. Currently, most USB devices cannot take full advantage of the performance offered by USB 3.1, so USB 3.2 is not expected to be common in the short term.

Despite the huge performance boost, USB 3.2 is still half as fast as Thunderbolt 3, so it won't replace the latter when using graphics cards externally on a PC.

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