The TUSB2036 hub is a 3.3-V CMOS device that provides up to three downstream ports in compliance with the USB 2.0 specification. Because this device is implemented with a digital state machine instead of a microcontroller, no firmware programming is required. Fully-compliant USB transceivers are integrated into the ASIC for all upstream and downstream ports. The downstream ports support both full-speed and low-speed devices by automatically setting the slew rate according to the speed of the device attached to the ports. The configuration of theBUSPWRpin selects either the bus-powered or the self-powered mode. The introduction of the DP0 pullup resistor disable pin, DP0PUR, makes it much easier to implement an onboard bus/self-power dynamic-switching circuitry. With the new function pin, the end-equipment vendor can reduce the total board cost while adding additional product value.

TheEXTMEM(pin 26) enables or disables the optional EEPROM interface. WhenEXTMEMis high, the vendor and product IDs (VID and PID) use defaults, such that the message displayed during enumeration is General Purpose USB Hub.

The TUSB2036 supports both bus-powered and self-powered modes. External power-management devices, such as the TPS2044, are required to control the 5-V power source switching (on/off) to the downstream ports and to detect an overcurrent condition from the downstream ports individually or ganged.Read more