Universal Serial Bus

Is an computer interface.

Notes

• VID = idVendor, PID = idProduct
• USB Cheat Sheet: complete description

Standards

According to this Wikipedia page>) - USB 1.1: OHCI and UHCI - USB 2.0: EHCI - USB 3.0: xHCI

Pinout (source)

USB4 / Thunderbolt

Transfer files between computers

1. Connect both (Windows) computers with a Thunderbolt cable
2. Check that a network card appeared in both devices
3. Activate file sharing on the sender PC
4. Access the file share from the receiver PC
5. Use robocopy to move files efficiently: robocopy /e "\\192.168.x.x\source" "C:/destination" /r:0

Power Split

• Use-case: keep a device on while the (data) host is off, like a NanoKVM
• Few adapter exists to truly splits data and power
  • Essence Engineering - USB-C PD power splitter