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USB is easy because USB is hard (made by hard working engineers)

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May 25, 2016

Back in the 20th century, my first meeting meeting as USB PMM was with Mr. Ed Beeman in December 1999. In May, 2000, We demonstrated our USB 2.0 Device controller IP in an HP ScanJet scanner. One of the very first demonstrations in an actual product.

Just prior to that, I was managing 1394 (Firewire) and IrDA IP. My friend left the company, to go be a director of marketing elsewhere. USB was assigned to me. USB 2.0 took off in flash drives and storage. And here I am 16 years later.

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