While USB 3.0 has been widely adopted, USB 2.0 remains popular for car navigation systems and other applications where a 480 Mbps or less transfer rate is just enough.
Here, cable assemblies are considered captive if they are provided with a vendor-specific connect means (hardwired or custom detachable) to the peripheral. To ensure all such connectors and cable assemblies comply with the USB 2.0 standard, they must be tested in accordance with the specification.
While Keysight already offers a MOI for USB 3.0 connector and cable assembly compliance tests, support for USB 2.0 has now been added to the mix. The result is a complete USB solution that provides engineers with a measurement guide of procedures that supports compliance testing to both the USB 2.0 and 3.0 standards.
Using the MOI, state files and calibration kit files, cable and connector manufacturers and product integrators can now more efficiently perform compliance tests to the USB standard with the E5071C-TDR.