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USB 3.0 Connectors
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TE Connectivity offers USB 3.0 Connectors
Key Features
• Over 10X performance increase
• Support 5 Gbps data rate for fast sync-n-go
• Minimizes user wait-time
• Backward compatible with USB 2.0 connector
• Minimize connector form factor variations
• Contain EMI
• Comprehend ease-of-use aspects
• Optimized power efficiency
• No device polling
• Lower active and idle power requirements
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USB 3.0 Applications
• Storage
• External hard drives
• Flashcard readers for digital cameras
• High definition A/V equipment
• Desktop & laptop computers
• Keyboards/ mice/ joysticks
• Printers/ scanners
• Game ports • Modems
• Cell phones
• GPS devices
• MP3 player
• Set-top-box
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Comparison
Consumer Electronics
- Ease-of-use, energy efficiency, and reliability
- Backward compatibility with existing devices/classes
Storage
- SuperSpeed data transfer with large amounts of storage
- Superior power management of mass storage devices
High Definition A/V
- HD and real-time scenarios
- Improved experiences for rich-media devices
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Why Do We Need SuperSpeed USB?
- Flash-based peripherals will require much higher data rates
- User wait time requirement
- Interface performance sets the requirement
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USB 3.0 Standard – A Connector
- Same interface as the USB 2.0 standard – A connector, but with added
pins for SuperSpeed USB signals
- Complete compatibility with USB 2.0 standard – A connector
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USB 3.0 Standard – B Connector
- Defined for relatively large, stationary peripherals such as hard drives and printers
- Visually different from USB 2.0 standard – B connector – but the receptacle accepts a USB
2.0 standard – B plug
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USB 3.0 Micro Connector Family
- Defined for handheld devices
- Backward compatible with USB 2.0 micro connectors
- Based on USB 2.0 micro – B connector with an extended portion for the SuperSpeed USB
signals
- USB 3.0 Micro – A and AB connectors are identical to USB 3.0 Micro – B connector except
for different keying
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Connector Mechanical Requirements
- Durability
- Micro family: 10,000 cycles
- All other connectors
- Standard durability class: 1,500 cycles
- High durability class: 5,000 cycles
- Unmating force
- 10N min initial, 8N min EOL
- 4-axis continuity
- Required for Micro connector family
- Mated cable assembly voltage drop (Vbus and GND, respectively)
- 225mV max with a 900mA current
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Connector Electrical Requirements
- Voltage
- 30 VA
- Current
- Pin 1 & 4 – 1.8A; other pins – 0.25A min.
- Contact Resistance
- Pin 1 & pin 4 – 30Ω; other pins – 50mΩ max.
- Dielectric Withstanding Voltage
- 100 VAC
- Insulation Resistance
- 100MΩ
- Impedance
- 90Ω +/- 15Ω @ 50 ps rise time (20% - 80%)
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Connector Interoperability Summary
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In Summary
- Over 10X performance increase
- Supports 5 Gbps data rate
- HD-move transfers in 70 sec. vs. 13.9 min. with USB 2.0
- Fast sync-n-go
- Minimizes user wait-time
- Optimized Power Efficiency
- No device polling
- Lower active and idle power requirements
- Backward compatible with USB 2.0 connector
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