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History
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Device classes
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Comparisons with other connection methods
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Related standards
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Key facts & relationships
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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- Superseded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
Topics to explore
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.Browse the full topic structure. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Overview
- Industry standard Technical standard
- USB Implementers Forum
- Interfaces Interface (computing)
- Communication protocols Communication protocol
- Personal computers Personal computer
- Peripherals Peripheral
- Serial ports Serial port
- Parallel ports Parallel port
- Game ports Game port
- Apple Desktop Bus
- USB-C
- USB 2.0 USB
- USB 3.x USB 3.0
- USB4
- Thunderbolt 3
- PCI Express
- DisplayPort
- Signaling rates Signaling rate
- Full-duplex Duplex (telecommunications)
- USB Power Delivery
- Interrupts Interrupt
- Hot-swappable
- Compliance testing
- Device drivers Device driver
- Latency Latency (engineering)
- Gateway Gateway (telecommunications)
- Tree network
- Master/slave Master–slave (technology)
- USB On-The-Go
- Protocol bridge
History
- Compaq
- DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
- IBM
- Intel
- Microsoft
- NEC
- Nortel
- Plug and play
- Atari SIO
- IEEE-488
- Commodore bus
- HP-IL
- IEEE 1394
- Joseph C. Decuir
- Prior art
- Patent troll
- Ajay Bhatt
- Integrated circuits Integrated circuit
- Legacy-free PC
- Engineering change notices Engineering change order
- InterChip USB
- Battery Charging USB hardware
- Backward-compatible
- 8b/10b encoding
- Full-duplex
- USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP) USB Attached SCSI
- USB 3.1
- Line encoding
- 128b/132b
- USB 3.2
System design
- Star topology
- USB hubs USB hub
- Webcam
- Compound device
- Endpoint Communication endpoint
- Isochronous
- Mice Computer mouse
- Tuple
- Polls Polling (computer science)
- Round-robin Round-robin scheduling
Device classes
- USB mass storage device class
- Flash drives USB flash drive
- SD card
- Hot-swapping
- Hard disk drives Hard disk drive
- ESATA
- ExpressCard
- FireWire
- Thunderbolt Thunderbolt (interface)
- Media Transfer Protocol
- DRM Digital rights management
- Portable media players Portable media player
- Android operating system
- PS/2 ports PS/2 port
- Logic circuitry Electronic circuit
- Firmware
- PROM Programmable read-only memory
- IPod
- IPhone
- DSD Direct Stream Digital
- Microsoft Microsoft Windows
- Windows 10
- MacOS
- IOS
- Linux
- Android Android (operating system)
- Hi-fi
- Sample rate conversion
Cabling
Power
Signaling
- Differential signaling
- Twisted-pair
- Characteristic impedance
- Half-duplex
- Trit Ternary numeral system
- Baud
- Terminated Electrical termination
Protocol layer
- Packets Network packet
Related standards
- Wireless USB
- Ultra-wideband
- Wireless technology
- Physical layer
- Board Printed circuit board
- SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
- I2C
- HDMI
- Computer monitor
- Television set
Comparisons with other connection methods
- Tiered-star Star network
- Direct memory access
- DMA attack
- Power over Ethernet
- DC Direct current
- Voice over IP
- Security cameras Security camera
- Wireless access points Wireless access point
- Ethernet
- MIDI
- Ground loop Ground loop (electricity)
- SATA
- ESATAp
- Hot plugging
- Thunderbolt 2
- Thunderbolt 4
Interoperability
- Protocol converters Protocol converter
Security threats
USB
Derived and related standards
General overview
Technical documents
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.USB
Nodes171
Edges170
Triples413
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011696
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
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USB
Top relations
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
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
devices device host power data standard specification usb-c connectors usb4 transfer peripheral use cable protocol cables peripherals used gbit interfaces
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USB | Designed | January 1996; 30 years ago (1996-01) | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Designer | Compaq | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Designer | DEC | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Designer | IBM | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Designer | Intel | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Designer | Microsoft | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Designer | NEC | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Designer | Nortel | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Open standard? | Yes | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Produced | Since May 1996 | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Superseded | ADB, FireWire, game, parallel, PS/2, SCSI, and serial ports | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | Type | Bus | 1.00 | infobox |
| USB | is a | cable-replacement technology | 0.90 | text |
| USB | is a | chip-to-chip variant that eliminates the conventional transceivers found in normal USB | 0.90 | text |
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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