Fortunately, if you’ve ever needed to test the voltage on your USB-C devices, there is a tool for you. There are quite a few USB-C voltage meters on the market, including one from one of my favourite ...

If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely known is that there are ...

There are lots of abbreviations and standards surrounding USB ports, and EPR is one of them. Here's what it means and ...

The package of "Satechi Type-C Power Meter" looks something like this. When opening the box, there was a body of Satechi Type - C Power Meter in the transparent blister. Having this in my hand, it ...

USB-C eliminates proprietary barrel plug chargers that we’ve been using for laptops and myriads of other devices. It fights proprietary phone charger standards by explicitly making them non-compliant, ...

Intersil announced the industry’s first buck-boost voltage regulator for tablets, ultrabooks, power banks, and other mobile devices using the reversible USB Type-C™ connector. The ISL95338 ...

"People who have troubles that they should be connected to the charger, they do not feel like they are being charged," or "The charger body or cable seems to be broken, but I do not know which is ...

All computer hardware components, including the USB controllers, operate on a specific voltage. The amount of power a USB device draws from the power supply depends on the kind of peripheral connected ...

Security experts have warned of the dangers associated with USB drives for some time, but until now, the biggest danger has been viruses and malware. Now there is a new potential threat that turns the ...

Infineon Technologies AG has claimed the industry’s first high-voltage microcontrollers (MCUs) with USB Power Delivery (USB PD) 3.1 support. The EZ-PD Power Delivery Microcontroller Gen1 (PMG1) is ...