Introduction
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PD™ CCG2 Development Kit Guide, Doc. No. 001-96601 Rev. *B
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1.4 Abbreviations
Table 1-2. List of Abbreviations
Definitions and
Acrynoms
Meaning
Active cable
Electronically Marked Cable Assembly with a re-driver to condition USB data signals.
Biphase
Mark
Code
(BMC)
Modification of Manchester code in which a zero has one transition and a one has two transitions.
Cable plug
Term used to describe a PD-
capable element in a multidrop system addressed by SOP’/SOP’’ packets.
Logically, the cable plug is associated with a USB plug at one end of the cable. In a practical
implementation, the electronics may reside anywhere in the cable.
Configuration
channel
(CC)
Single wire used by the BMC PHY layer signaling in Type-C.
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check - The USB PD packet header and data shall be protected by a 32-bit CRC
DFP
Downstream facing port is a USB Type-C port on a host or a hub to which devices are connected.
DVK
Development kit.
EEPROM
Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory.
Electronically Marked
Cable Assembly
(EMCA)
A USB Type-
C cable that uses USB PD to provide the cable’s characteristics
End Of Packet (EOP)
K-code marker used to delineate the end of a packet
I
2
C
Inter-integrated circuit.
Packet
An entire unit of PD communication, including a preamble, SOP, payload, CRC, and EOP.
Passive cable
Cable with a USB plug on each end, at least one of which is a cable plug supporting SOP’ that does not
incorporate data bus signal conditioning circuits. Supports the Structured VDM to determine its
characteristics.
does not discuss passive cables that are not EMCAs.
PC
Personal computer.
SBU
Sideband Use Signals are used in the Alternate Mode supported by the Type-C specification, which
enables multi-purposing of Type-C signals for alternate uses such as DisplayPort
SCL
I
2
C serial clock line.
SDA
I
2
C serial data line.
SDK
Software development kit.
Start of packet (SOP)
K-code marker used to delineate the start of a packet. Three SOP sequences are
defined: SOP, SOP’,
and SOP’’, with SOP* used to refer to all three.
SOP packet
PD packet that starts with an SOP.
SOP’ packet
PD packet that starts with an SOP’; used to communicate with a cable plug at the near end/host side of
the cable.
SOP’’ packet
PD packet that starts with an SOP’’; used to communicate with a cable plug at the far end/device side of
the cable.