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USB 3 Applications Slide 2

Shown on this slide are the major advantages of the USB 3.0, or SuperSpeed, standard over previous USB standards. USB 3.0 has a data rate up to ten times higher than USB 2.0 and allows maximum data speeds of 4.8 Gbps. Due to the separation of data lanes for upload and download, the new standard is not only quicker, it also allows the device to read and store files at the same time. An additional advantage is intelligent power management, which allows a quicker charge of USB chargeable devices and is also equipped with an interrupt-driven protocol. This means non-active or idle devices (which are not being charged by the USB port) will not have their power drained by the host controller as it looks for active data traffic. Lastly, the new USB 3.0 standard is fully backwards-compatible to USB 2.0.

PTM Published on: 2011-06-22