


It has largely replaced interfaces such as serial ports and parallel ports and has become commonplace on a wide range of devices. USB was designed to standardize the connection of peripherals to personal computers, both to communicate with and to supply electric power. A broad variety of USB hardware exists, including 14 different connector types, of which USB-C is the most recent and the only one not currently deprecated.įirst released in 1996, the USB standards are maintained by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF).

Universal Serial Bus ( USB) is an industry standard that establishes specifications for cables, connectors and protocols for connection, communication and power supply ( interfacing) between computers, peripherals and other computers. Serial port, parallel port, game port, Apple Desktop Bus, PS/2 port, and FireWire (IEEE 1394)
