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Peripheral Device Connections, Explained: The ABC of USB, Thunderbolt, and USB Power Delivery

If you're unsure of the differences between USB-C and Thunderbolt or between USB 3.0 and USB 3.2 (or is that USB 3.1?), you're not alone. Mind you, we've been in a pretty good place in the past half a ...
Houston Chronicle

What Type of Devices Are Mice, Printers, Scanners and Speakers?

Computer devices such as mice, printers, scanners and speakers are known as peripheral hardware. These peripherals are further split into two categories, input devices and output devices. The function ...
Business Wire

Parade Introduces USB Type-C Retimers for Peripheral Devices Supporting USB 3.2 Gen 2 and DisplayPort 1.4a HBR3 with Internal Signal Muxing

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Parade Technologies, Ltd. (Taiwan OTC: 4966.TWO), a leading high-speed interface, video display, and touch controller IC supplier, today announced the PS8822, a USB ...
Electronic Design

Talk To Multiple Devices With One UART

The Universal Asynchronous Receive and Transmit (UART) interface is found on a variety of peripheral devices. Consider, for instance, a microcontrollerbased system with four such peripherals. Ideally, ...
ZDNet

BlackBerry patent would ease the pain of connections with peripheral devices

The patent app is named "Universal peripheral connector." I've just linked you to the app as published on the website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. And that's a pix of the cover page at the ...