USB Type-C™ and Power Delivery

USB Type-C™ is the new USB-IF standard that solves several challenges faced by today's Type-A and Type-B cables and connectors. USB Type-C™ uses a slimmer connector (measuring only 2.4-mm in height) to allow for increasing miniaturization of consumer and industrial products. The USB Type-C™ standard is gaining rapid support by enabling small form-factor, easy-to-use connectors and cables with the ability to transmit multiple protocols and offer power delivery up to 100 W – a significant improvement over the 7.5 W for previous standards.

USB Type-C™ Highlights

• Brand new reversible connector, measuring only 2.4-mm in height
• Compliant with USB Power Delivery 2.0, providing up to 100 W
• Double the bandwidth of USB 3.0, increasing to 10 Gbps with SuperSpeed+ USB3.1
• Combines multiple protocols in a single cable, including DisplayPort™, PCIe® or Thunderbolt™

For more information on Type-C™ technology and its applications, please watch the training video available here. This training video explains the technological advances introduced with the new USB IF’s Type-C™ Specification. It also shows how USB-Type-C™ can be designed into practical products. The four applications covered in this video are: host design, cable design, peripheral design and power adapter design. Working prototype of Reference Designs are presented for each application area along with design and debug tools.

Cypress’s EZ-PD™ Type-C™ Controllers are based on Cypress’s PSoC® 4 programmable system-on-chip architecture, which includes programmable analog and digital blocks, an ARM® Cortex®-M0 core and 32 KB of flash memory. This product family is driving the industry’s first Type-C™ products with top-tier PC makers, enabling them to bring these USB Type-C™ benefits to market. Cypress has reference designs readily available for EMCA, dongle, power adapter, monitor/dock, power bank, and other applications. These are available online here and could be used to speed-up our customers design cycle.

View Cypress's Type-C™ 101 Training Video Series