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USB

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard, developed by USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), for digital data transmission and power delivery between many types of electronics. It specifies the architecture, in particular the physical interfaces, and communication protocols to and from hosts, such as personal computers, to and from peripheral…

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Designed
January 1996; 30 years ago (1996-01)
Designer
Compaq · DEC · IBM · Intel · Microsoft
Open standard?
Yes
Produced
Since May 1996
Superseded
ADB, FireWire, game, parallel, PS/2, SCSI, and serial ports
Type
Bus

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USB

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USB

Nodes171
Edges170
Triples413
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011696
Components1

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USB

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related to Technical documents · 52
USB → An Analysis, Archived, August, Common, Connector SpecificationIEC, Connectors Class Document Revision, Connectors Specification, Create, Electronic Design, Garney, Henk, Hershenhoren, How, IEC, Intel, January, John, July, June, May
related to Further reading · 33
USB → Axelson, Building I/O Devices, COM Ports, Compliance, Debugging USB, December, Designing, Digital World, Embedded Hosts, Embedded Systems, Example, February, Hyde, Intel Press, ISBN, It's Not Just, Jan, John, Keysight, Keysight Technologies
related to history · 32
USB → Ajay Bhatt, Apple, Atari, Atari SIO, Cannon, Commodore, Compaq, Concepts, DEC, Decuir, Hewlett Packard's HP-IL, Hitachi, IBM, IEEE, IEEE-488, Intel, Joseph, LG, Matsushita, Microsoft
related to overview · 25
USB → An Overview, Barnatt, Bijal, Changing, Christopher, Engineers Garage, Explaining USB, ExplainingComputers, Fast Company, From, It, Joel, Johnson, Leigh, May, Parikh, Peripherals, Peter, Retrieved, September
related to USB4 · 15
USB → August, DisplayPort, Gbit/s, It, PAM3, PCIe, September, Since, The USB4, Thunderbolt, USB-C, USB-IF, USB4, USB4 Version, Version
related to Low-power and high-power devices · 14
USB → All, Any, BC, For, It, On, PD, PD USB, This, Type-A, Type-B, USB Power Delivery, USB-C, USB-PD
related to USB 1.x · 14
USB → August, Few USB, Full Speed, It, January, Legacy-free PC, Low Bandwidth, Low Speed, Mbit/s, Microsoft, Neither USB, Released, There, Though
related to Ethernet · 12
USB → AC, DC, DSL, Ethernet, However, IP, PoE, Power, The IEEE, They, This, Voice
related to Media Agnostic USB · 12
USB → Devices, Hi-Speed USB, July, MA-USB, Mbit/s, Media Agnostic USB, Powered, SuperSpeed USB, The USB Implementers Forum, The USB-IF, WiGig Serial Extension, Wireless USB
related to Media Transfer Protocol · 12
USB → Android, DRM, It, Jelly Bean, Media Transfer Protocol, Microsoft, MTP, The, UMS, Windows, Windows Phone, Zune

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devices device host power data standard specification usb-c connectors usb4 transfer peripheral use cable protocol cables peripherals used gbit interfaces

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
USBDesignedJanuary 1996; 30 years ago (1996-01)1.00infobox
USBDesignerCompaq1.00infobox
USBDesignerDEC1.00infobox
USBDesignerIBM1.00infobox
USBDesignerIntel1.00infobox
USBDesignerMicrosoft1.00infobox
USBDesignerNEC1.00infobox
USBDesignerNortel1.00infobox
USBOpen standard?Yes1.00infobox
USBProducedSince May 19961.00infobox
USBSupersededADB, FireWire, game, parallel, PS/2, SCSI, and serial ports1.00infobox
USBTypeBus1.00infobox
USBis acable-replacement technology0.90text
USBis achip-to-chip variant that eliminates the conventional transceivers found in normal USB0.90text

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