Talk:Host controller interface (USB, Firewire)

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A host controller interface is a register level interface [...]

What's a register level interface? --Abdull 09:31, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About 2 weeks ago I said this message in user Balrog-kun I apologize this, because intially I was going to post this in discussion, but sinc eonly Abdull was writing something, I thought nobody else care about the article.

Please DO NOT use Wikipedia as a form of advertise or to support anything. The intention of an 
encyclopedia is to have a neutrality. (referring to the things that you added below under HCI 
disambiguation)

Host Controller Interface, an essential part of every Bluetooth subsystem is officially  
abbreviated
to HCI.  
 --Ramu50 (talk) 01:57, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Let me explain this why I remove Bluetooth in the article and not in the HCI disambiguation. As you know the first storage technology, were meant for desktop systems and mobile technology didn't come after a very long time of computing developement.

Southbridge History

• IDE---ATAPI specification
• LPT & COM / Serial

HCI age

• Many type of flash memory including: USB, FireWire, tape drives...etc.
• Wireless devices interface

Since HCI was invent to assist Southbridge (aka Super I/O) and many people at that time didn't have a good understanding of wireless communication unless you were working in Telecommunication or working for NASA space control (rocket science). So much of the developement was not for wireless nor mobile.

Thus the commonly recognized standard today generaly serial technology which is IEEE, USB Alliance and ATAPI. ATAPI was recognized as part of the HCI, because SATA connection influenced the ATAPI Optical Drives (referring to peripherials NOT fiber optics) and the many technology in hard drive is use in SSD to promote the developement, espcially in DMA.

So since is there no specification or HCI, because it was a common practice that almost every alliance and association like I propose on having 3 big section in HCI, the Serial group (IEEE & USB), ATAPI (which would have 2 sub topics, one is SATA influence [optical drives], the other is SSD [DMA]). The wireless communication and mobile communication will be titled as Wireless and Mobile communication, but it must contain the template The Neutrality of the article is disputed because at right now we do not how is the WiMAX alliance, Bluetooth association, Wi-Fi, IrDA association is going to turn out.

Remeber certification might need to implanted in the future. --Ramu50 (talk) 17:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No offense to previous authors but this section was too much a stream of consciousness. I've rewritten the first paragraph and integrated the second and third. My technical knowledge is quite limited. Correction of errors and further improvements in composition are welcome, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 15:03, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As I understood, the article indicated that conformance testing by Intel helped to prevent incursion of proprietary features. I would have thought that testing by an independent agent would be more effective. Intel could introduce a proprietary feature and claim that the device was conformant. Outsiders would learn otherwise only by finding a failure with conformant software, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 17:10, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

While a hobbyist or a company with a smaller production run might implement some of USB in an FPGA, on PC motherboards the chips are manufactured by the millions. So they use custom silicon, integrated into the southbridge. With the cost of FPGAs and the commodity-scales of motherboards, an FPGA would be completely impractical. Even the block-diagrams of PCs show USB sprouting from the southbridge chip.

188.29.165.51 (talk) 22:53, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]