GENERAL DESCRIPTION

GL3233 is a USB 3.0 Single-LUN card reader controller which can support various types of memory cards, such as CompactFlashTM ,Secure DigitalTM (SD), SDHC, miniSD, microSD (T-Flash), MultiMedia CardTM (MMC), RS-MMC, MMCmicro, MMCmobile, Memory StickTM (MS), Memory Stick DuoTM (MS Duo), High Speed Memory StickTM (HS MS), Memory Stick PROTM (MS PRO), Memory Stick PROTM Duo (MS PRO Duo), Memory Stick PRO-HGTM (MS PRO-HG), MS PRO Micro and xD-Picture CardTM on one chip. It also supports SDXC and Memory Stick XC high density memory cards (capacity up to 2TB) and high speed SD3.0 UHS-I memory cards.

FEATURES

USB specification compliance

- Comply with Universal Serial Bus 3.0 Specification rev. 1.0 (USB 3.0)

- Comply with Universal Serial Bus Specification rev.2.0 (USB 2.0)

- Comply with USB Mass Storage Class Specification rev. 1.0

- Support USB Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport (BOT)

- Support 1 device address and up to 3 endpoints: Control (0) / Bulk Data Write Out (1) / Bulk Data Read In (2)

- Support 5 Gbps/SuperSpeed, 480 Mbps/high-speed, and12 Mbps/full-speed transfer rates

Integrated USB building blocks

- SuperSpeed/USB2.0 transceiver macro (UTM), Serial Interface Engine (SIE) and embedded

Power-On Reset (POR)

Embedded high speed 8051 micro-controller

High efficiency hardware DMA engine improves data transfer performance between USB and flash card interfaces

Support CompactFlashTM v6.0 with PIO mode 6 / Ultra DMA mode 7 and LBA48 (Capacity up to

144PB)

Support Secure DigitalTM v1.0 / v1.1 / v2.0/ SDHC / SDXC (capacity up to 2TB)

Support Secure DigitalTM v3.0 UHS-I (Ultra High Speed): SDR12/SDR25/SDR50/DDR50/SDR104

Compliant with MultiMediaCardTM (MMC)

- MMC specification v3.x / v4.0 / v4.1 / v4.2 / v4.3 / v4.4

- x1 / x4 / x8 bit data bus Support Memory StickTM / Memory Stick PRO / Memory Stick PRO Duo / Memory Stick Micro /Memory Stick PRO-HG / Memory Stick XC (capacity upto 2TB)

- Compliant with Memory Stick Series Specification: MS v1.43, MS PRO v1.05, MS Micro v1.04

(MS HG Micro v1.00), MS PRO-HG Duo 1.03, MS XC Duo v1.00, MS XC-HG Duo v1.00, MS

XC Micro v1.00 and MS XC-HG Micro v1.00

- Support Read/Write quad data access (512Bytex4) forMS PRO-HG to enhance the transmission

rate

Support xD-Picture CardTM v1.2C Type M/H

Support ISP (In System Programming) for firmware upgrade into the external SPI Flash via USB port

On-Chip power MOSFETs for supplying flash media card power

On-chip 5V to 3.3V and 3.3V to 1.2V regulator

Support U0/U1/U2/U3 power management mode

Pass the USB-IF Test Procedure for SuperSpeed product (TID: 340810011)

Pass WHCK (Windows Hardware Certification Kit) testfor Windows 8 (Submission ID: 1508144)

Pass WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) test for Windows 7 (Submission ID: 1497856)

Available in LQFP64 pin package (7x7mm) which can support one LUN: SD/MS/xD/CF

Available in LQFN46 pin package (6.5x4.5mm) which can support one LUN: SD/MS/xD

Available in LQFP48 pin package (7x7mm) which can support one LUN: SD/MS/xD