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Encyclopedia: Universal Serial Bus

For other uses, see USB (disambiguation).

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to interface devices. It was originally designed for personal computers, but it has become commonplace on handheld devices such as portable memory devices, video game consoles, PDAs and portable media players.

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How to say "Universal Serial Bus" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	通用串行总线
	(Japanese)	Universal Serial Bus
	(German)	Universal Serial Bus
	(Spanish)	USB
	(French)	Universal Serial Bus
	(Italian)	Universal Serial Bus

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Game port

The game port is the traditional connection for video game input devices on an x86-based PCs. The game port is usually integrated with a PC sound card, either ISA or PCI. The game port has been replaced by the Universal Serial Bus, which allows for better plug-and-play support. See also: game...

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EZQuest

EZQuest, Inc. , founded in 1994 and based in Yorba Linda, California, is a manufacturer and developer of computer storage devices. Among its products are devices that connect to personal computers using IEEE 1394, Universal Serial Bus, and SCSI interfaces. List of EZQuest products "Pro Audio...

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Adapter

even digital signal processing in the case of converters). Universal Serial Bus (USB) adapters are... attachments. Likewise, a serial port may require an adapter to connect between the old DB-25 type and...

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HP-IL

Universal Serial Bus now largely in us on desktop computers. However, as it names implies, the cable...

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Iomega REV

Universal Serial Bus. The small removable discs themselves exceed 35 GB/disc and exceed 1.5, 1.1, 0.75 GB... the REV brand. Also see: Jaz drive, Zip drive and Bernoulli drive. Also see: Universal Disk Format...

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Serial communications

(old, low-cost, low-speed, for connecting computers to peripherals) Universal Serial Bus (newer... be either serial or parallel. A parallel link transmits several streams of data (perhaps representing..., optical fibres, ...); a serial link transmits a single stream of data. At first sight it would seem that...

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Intel

Bus, the Universal Serial Bus (USB), and the now-dominant architecture for multi-processor servers...

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PlayStation 2

remote control port**, and 2 Universal Serial Bus USB 1.1 ports. Disc Media: DVD-ROM (CD-ROM... Memory Bus Bandwidth: 3.2 GB per second Main processor: MIPS R5900 CPU core, 64-bit Co-Processor: FPU... Decoder: MPEG2 Graphics: "Graphics Synthesizer" clocked at 150MHz DRAM Bus bandwidth: 48.0GB Per Second...

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PC motherboard

frees up some expansion slots). As of 2001, most PCs also support Universal Serial Bus (USB... attachment points for the CPU, graphics card, sound card, IDE/ATA/Serial ATA hard disk controller.... Each slot is compatible with one or more industry bus standards. Commonly available buses include...

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Computer bus

) RS-485 Serial ATA Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller Area... most serial buses have more conductors than the minimum of two used in the I²C serial bus. As data... circumvent, to the point where a serial bus can actually be operated at higher overall data rates than...

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