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Universal Serial Bus 3.12 Specification
Apple Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Inc.
Intel Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Renesas Corporation
STMicroelectronics
Texas Instruments
September 22, 2017
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Revision History
Revision
Comments
Issue Date
1.0
Initial Release – USB 3.0
November 12, 2008
Incorporated errata and ECNs
June 6, 2011
1.0
Initial Release – USB 3.1
July 26, 2013
Incorporated errata and ECNs
September 22, 2017
1.0
Initial Release – USB 3.2
September 22, 2017
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Acknowledgement of Technical Contribution
Dedication
Dedicated to the memory of Brad Hosler, the impact of whose
accomplishments made the Universal Serial Bus one of the most
successful technology innovations of the Personal Computer era.
The authors of this specification would like to recognize the following people who
participated in the USB 3.02 Bus Specification technical work group. We would also like to
acknowledge the many unnamed others throughout the industry who provided feedback and
contributed to the development of this specification.
Apple Inc. – Promoter Company Employees
Sree Anantharaman
Brian Baek
Jason Chung
David Conroy
Bill Cornelius
Scott Deandrea
William Ferry
Rhoads Hollowell
Derek Iwamoto
Scott Jackson
Reese Schreiber
Jennifer Tsai
Colin Whitby-Strevens
Jeff Wilcox
Dan Wilson
Hewlett-Packard Inc. – Promoter Company Employees
Alan Berkema
Norton Ewart
Rahul Lakdawala
Intel Corporation – Promoter Company Employees
Huimin Chen
Kuan-Yu Chen
John Crouter
Benjamin Graniello
Raul Gutierrez
Howard Heck
Danny Hofshi
John Howard
Rahman Ismail
James Jaussi
Vijaykumar Kadgi
Issy Kipnis
Lev Kolomiets
Christine Krause
Yun Ling
Viji Ramachandran
Kaleb Ruof
Zeeshan Sarwar
Brad Saunders
Sarah Sharp
Amit Srivastava
Shankar Subramani
David Thompson
Karthi Vadivelu
Microsoft Corporation – Promoter Company Employees
Randy Aull
Anthony Chen
Vivek Gupta
Robbie Harris
Jayson Kastens
Toby Nixon
Rahul Ramadas
Yang You
Renesas Corporation – Promoter Company Employees
Tam Do
Bob Dunstan
Masami Katagiri
Philip Leung
Kiichi Muto
Hajime Nozaki
STMicroelectronics – Promoter Company Employees
Jerome Deroo
Abdelaziz Goulahsen
Benoit Mercier
Richard O’Connor
Texas Instruments – Promoter Company Employees
Mike Campbell
Grant Ley
Anwar Sadat
James Skidmore
Sue Vining
Contributor Company Employees
Aces Electronics Co.,
Ltd.
Jason Chen
Andy Feng
Acon
Glen Chandler
Vicky Chuang
Sharon Hsiao
Advanced Micro Devices
Shadi Barakat
Walter Fry
Will Harris
Jason Hawken
Yufei Ma
Joseph Scanlon
Peter Teng
Vishant Tyagi
Min Wang
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Allion Labs, Inc.
Howard Chang
John Lin
Stan Lin
Brian Shih
Analogix
Semiconductor, Inc.
Ke Ma
Greg Stewart
Haijian Sui
ASMedia Technology
Inc.
Chin Chang
Weber Chuang
Han Sung Kuo
ShuYu Lin
Luke Peng
Daniel Wei
ShengChung Wu
Bizlink Technology, Inc.
Ted Hsiao
Morphy Hsieh
Sean O’Neal
Cadence Design
Systems, Inc.
Harisankar
Aravindakshan
Marcin Behrendt
Huzaifa Dalal
Jacek Duda
Pawel Eichler
Dariusz Kaczmarczyk
Tomasz Klimek
John Lupienski
Jie Min
Uyen Nguyen
Raja Pounraj
Fred Stivers
Claire Ying
Corning Optical
Communications LLC
Wojciech Giziewicz
Ian McKay
Jamie Silva
Cosemi Technologies
Inc.
Samir Desai
Devang Parekh
Cypress Semiconductor
Mark Fu
Rushil Kadakia
Michael Miskho
Anup Nayak
Veerappan Rajaram
Rangarajan
Sundaravaradan
Dell Inc.
Mohammed Hijazi
Terry Matula
Marcin Nowak
Sean O’Neal
Merle Wood
Diodes Incorporated
Kay Annamalai
Joseph Juan
Qun Song
Jin-sheng Wang
Michael Zhang
DisplayLink (UK) Ltd.
Pete Burgers
Dan Ellis
Electronics Testing
Center, Taiwan
Sophia Liu
Ellisys
Abel Astley
Rick Bogart
Mario Pasquali
Chuck Trefts
EverPro Technologies
Company, Ltd.
Jiang Hui
Tom Yang
FLIR Integrated Imaging
Solutions
Andrew Fussell
Damian Nesbitt
Tim Vlaar
Foxconn / Hon Hai
Fred Fons
Bob Hall
Terry Little
Decheng Zou
Fresco Logic Inc.
Tim Barilovits
Bob McVay
Christopher Meyers
Jie Ni
Jeffrey Yang
Granite River Labs
Mike Engbretson
Hirose Electric
Junya Doi
Kazu Ichikawa
Daisuke Kogure
William Kysiak
Clement Luk
William MacKillop
Tadashi Ohshida
Isamu Saito
Toshiyuki Takada
Shigeo Tezuka
Sid Tono
Japan Aviation
Electronics Industry
Ltd. (JAE)
Toshiyuki Moritake
Takeharu Naito
Mark Saubert
Toshio Shimoyama
Takamitsu Wada
JMicron Technology
Corp.
Charon Chen
Kevin Liu
Hung-Cheng Lo
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Keysight Technologies
Inc.
Biing-Lin Lem
Jit Lim
Pedro Merlo
Roland Scherzinger
Dov Yancu
LeCroy Corporation
Linden Hsu
Daniel H Jacobs
Tyler Joe
Mike Micheletti
Michael Romm
Chris Webb
Lenovo
Tomoki Harada
LG Electronics Inc.
Do Kyun Kim
Lotes Co., Ltd.
Ariel Delos Reyes
Regina Liu-Hwang
John Lynch
LSI Corporation
Harvey Newman
Dave Thompson
Srinivas Vura
Luxshare-ICT
Josue Castillo
Sally Chiu
Alan Kinningham
Stone Lin
Scott Shuey
James Stevens
Pat Young
MEC IMEX INC – HPT
Daniel Chen
MegaChips Corporation
Satoru Kumashiro
Microchip Technology
Inc.
Mark Bohm
Mick Davis
Adriaan Peeters
Richard Petrie
Andrew Rogers
Mouli Subramanian
MQP Electronics Ltd.
Sten Carlsen
Nokia
Peter Harrison
NXP Semiconductors
Jason Chen
Gerrit den Besten
Anand Kannan
Vijendra Kuroodi
Krishnan TN
Bart Vertenten
Ahmad Yazdi
ON Semiconductor
Eduardo De Reza
Parade Technologies,
Inc.
Craig Wiley
Qualcomm, Inc.
James Goel
Karyn Vuong
Jin-sheng Wang
Realtek Semiconductor
Corp.
Terry Lin
Samsung Electronics
Co., Ltd.
Cheolyoon Chung
Jagoun Koo
Cheolho Lee
Jun Bum Lee
Seagate Technology LLC
Alvin Cox
Steven Davis
Emmanuel Lemay
Michael Morgan
Dan Smith
Cuong Tran
Philip Yin
Shenzhen Deren
Electronics Co., Ltd
Smark Huo
Lucy Zhang
Sibridge Technologies
Bhavesh Desai
Chirag Dhruv
Dipak Modi
Kruti Shah
Mishith Shukla
Specwertz
Amanda Hosler
Synopsys, Inc.
Subramaniam Aravindhan
Chandrashekar B U
Bala Babu
Morton Christiansen
Gervais Fong
Kevin Heilman
Eric Huang
Behram Minwalla
Saleem Mohammad
Matthew Myers
Tri Nguyen
John Stonick
Zongyao Wen
Tektronix, Inc.
Sarah Boen
Keyur Diwan
Srikrishna N.H.
Joshua OBrien
Total Phase
Chris Yokum
James Mason
Egbert Stellinga
Noah Zhang
