Fully integrated, low area universal serial bus device transceiver

A transceiver system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a first type of transceiver circuit for data transmission;
• a second type of transceiver circuit for data transmission;
• a communications interface for communicating between said first type of transceiver circuit and an external device, said first type of transceiver circuit co-located with a physical layer associated with said first type of transceiver circuit.

A transceiver apparatus, comprising:

• a processor;
• a first type of transceiver circuit for data transmission;
• a second type of transceiver circuit for data transmission;
• a communications interface for communicating between said first type of transceiver circuit and an external device, said first type of transceiver circuit co-located with a physical layer associated with said first type of transceiver circuit;
• and
• a USB 2.0 physical layer integrated with a system on chip or application-specific integrated circuit within said transceiver apparatus.