BANGALORE, INDIA: Universal Serial Bus has become known as the de facto standard for connecting personal computers and other peripheral devices. USB 2.0 was introduced in 2000 with 40x speed improvement over the legacy USB 1.1 specification.

This specification opened the door for a more data-intensive applications and an improved user experience. While the low speed (1.5 Mb/s) and full speed (12 Mb/s) rates were sufficient for devices like keyboards or mice the high speed rate (480 Mb/s) support developments in the area of multimedia, data storage and transfer, and other high speed i/o applications.

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The author is AE Manager at Tektronix India.