PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Micro Digital Announces MTP/PTP and UVC for smxUSBD™

Costa Mesa, California, February 14, 2013 — Micro Digital is pleased to announce new multimedia functions available for the SMX® USB Device stack, smxUSBD. Media Transfer Protocol and Picture Transfer Protocol (MTP/PTP) and Video (UVC) functions have been added to complement Audio, which has been available for several years. PTP allows transfer of pictures from a still image camera or other device to a USB host. MTP is based on PTP and adds the ability to transfer additional media such as music and even data files. An advantage of MTP vs. mass storage for transferring data files is that the USB host does not have block-level access to the disk, which promotes safety. It avoids having two file systems accessing the same disk, and it allows limiting access to only certain files. The Video function driver allows streaming video from an embedded device with a camera to a USB host. The Audio driver enables an embedded device to drive speakers from audio data from a USB host and to connect to a microphone to record audio on the USB host. It also supports MIDI.

These protocols are supported by common operating systems such as Windows, Mac, and Linux. Drivers are built into these OSes, so custom drivers are not needed. This makes it easy to connect an embedded device to a PC and share files and data with the file system, media players, audio recorders, video capture programs, and other applications running on these hosts.

For more information, please see the smxUSBD datasheet www.smxrtos.com/rtos/usb/smxusbd.htm.

Availability and Licensing

smxUSBD multimedia functions are sold separately and are available immediately. Standard license fees range from $3500 to $5500, plus the smxUSBD license fee. They include full source code, 90 days of technical support, and no per-seat charges. All of Micro Digital’s software is royalty free and is sold with a 30‑day money-back guarantee.

About smxUSBD

smxUSBD is a robust USB device stack that offers a large number of function and device controller drivers. In addition to the multimedia functions above, it offers Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU), Ethernet over USB (RNDIS), Human Interface Device (HID), Mass Storage, and Serial. It offers device controller drivers for many ARM, Cortex, ColdFire, Blackfin, RX, and other embedded processors, as well as external USB controllers from NXP, Renesas, and others with Mentor Graphics and Synopsys IP.

About Micro Digital

Micro Digital, Inc. has been in the embedded systems business for 37 years and has been producing and selling embedded software products for over 20 years. Micro Digital is dedicated to providing quality products and support for embedded systems at moderate prices. We may be contacted at (714) 437-7333 or sales@smxrtos.com.


smxUSBD is a trademark and SMX is a registered trademark of Micro Digital, Inc. Other trademarks used above are the properties of their respective owners.

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