USB-IF Compliance Updates

Number of Updates: 9

Table of Contents
ID Updated Subject Reason Mandate Effective Date
157 August, 2023 Reference of USB Power Delivery Specification Release Dates Reference for Grace Period Waivers Required August, 2023

156 March, 2023 Decrease to One Test Equipment Solution for SPR Products SPR Test Cases Achieve 95% Correlation Across 4 Approved Test Equipment Solutions Required March, 2023

152 January, 2023 Charge Cycle Test Applicability for PPS Capable Sinks Clarifying the Applicability of Charge Cycle Tests Required December, 2022

139 June, 2021 New Compliance Document Required for All USB PD Certifications "PD Merged Specification" replaces PD Tests document, Communication Engine MOI, and Deterministic MOI Required June, 2021

120 January, 2019 End of Life for All PD 2.0 Certifications Transition to PD 3.0 Required March, 2018

103 January, 2019 USB Type-C Interoperability Requirement USB Type-C Interoperability tests required for certification of PD Only Silicon products Required August, 2016

113 January, 2019 E-Markers Required to Operate at 3V to 5.5V USB Type-C ECN for Vconn Requirements Required February, 2017

116 April, 2018 USB-C IOP Tree Alternate Mode Monitor Clarify how to obtain the correct FW version of the Alt Mode Monitor Informational

105 August, 2016 Billboard Testing Required for Alt Mode Capable PD Only Silicon All PD Only Silicon implementing Alt Mode seeking certitication must pass applicable Billboard tests Required August, 2016

USB Type-C Interoperability Requirement
Mandate: Required
Effective Date: August, 2016

Effective immediately all of the following USB product categories must pass USB Type-C Interoperability tests in order to receive certification. This requirement is in addition to meeting all other compliance requirements given for the product category under test.

  • PD Only Silicon
  • USB Type-C End-Products (with or without PD)
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Billboard Testing Required for Alt Mode Capable PD Only Silicon
Mandate: Required
Effective Date: August, 2016

PD Only Silicon products capable of Alt Mode (i.e. enter and exit modes) must pass applicable Billboard related tests in order to be certified. This requirement is in addition to passing all existing applicable compliance tests.

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E-Markers Required to Operate at 3V to 5.5V
Mandate: Required
Effective Date: February, 2017
Requirements define in the ECN titled USB Type-C(TM) ECN Vconn Reqiuprements mandate all E-markers must  operate at Vconn voltages between 3V to 5.5V.
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USB-C IOP Tree Alternate Mode Monitor
Mandate: Informational
Effective Date:

The USB-IF currently uses the ASUS monitor in the USB-C IOP tree. The monitor used in the USB-IF tree uses a specific firmware that is not installed on current versions of the ASUS monitor being sold. In order to obtain the correct FW version please contact your nearest ASUS service center for the FW update.

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End of Life for All PD 2.0 Certifications
Mandate: Required
Effective Date: March, 2018

The USB-IF will discontinue the certification program for PD 2.0 silicon on January 25th, 2020

The USB-IF will discontinue the certification program for PD 2.0 end products on July 25th, 2020

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New Compliance Document Required for All USB PD Certifications
Mandate: Required
Effective Date: June, 2021

Effective Immediately all USB Power Delivery capable products seeking certification must test against the USB Power Delivery Compliance Test Specification Revision 1.2 Version 2, also known as the PD Merged Test Specification. This test specification combines the previously used USB PD 3.0 Tests document with the PD 2.0 Communication Engine MOI and PD 2.0 Deterministic MOI in addition to adding new checks that were not previously covered.

The list of approved equipment that use this document can be found here.

A grace period of 6 months will be given to products that fail the new compliance specification document while passing the old compliance specification documents. The waiver request must state any failures found using the new compliance specification document will be debugged. In addition, the waiver request must provide a reasonable fix date.

USB Authorized Test Labs, otherwise known as Independent Test labs, are instructed to run the new PD Merged Test Spec first then roll back to the old compliance documents if failures are found. The USB-IF will require that test labs submit results for both the old and the new versions of the compliance documents.

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Charge Cycle Test Applicability for PPS Capable Sinks
Mandate: Required
Effective Date: December, 2022

The purpose of the Charge Cycle Test is to verify that a product capable of PPS in the Sink power role can charge its battery with a variety of chargers.  The chargers used in the Charge Cycle Test have different PDP ratings as well as different power configurations (Power Limited Bit, OCP, ect..). Please email usbcompliance@usb.org for the list of chargers used.

Below bullet points clarify the applicability of the charge cycle tests based on different certification categories (silicon certifications vs end product certifications) and intended use cases (with a battery or without a battery).

·         USB PD Silicon capable of PPS in the Sink Role are not required to be tested against the Charge Cycle Tests.

·         USB PD End Products capable of PPS in the Sink role that have one or more batteries are required to be tested against the Charge Cycle Tests.

·         USB PD End Products capable of PPS in the Sink role which do not have a battery are not required to be tested against the Charge Cycle Tests.

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Decrease to One Test Equipment Solution for SPR Products
Mandate: Required
Effective Date: March, 2023

Effective Immediately Standard Power Range (SPR) Products are required to test against the USB PD CTS only once. All chapters in the USB PD CTS must be tested. It is important to note that some of the approved test equipment solutions only implement specific chapters of the USB PD Compliance Test Specification. Previous to this update, the certification requirement for SPR products was to test against the PD Compliance Test Specification twice on two of the approved test equipment solutions. At the time of this publication the USB-IF has approved 4 test equipment companies to run the USB PD Compliance Test Specification. Moving forward products that do not support Extended Power Range (EPR) are only required to be tested against one solution if that solution implements the entire USB PD Compliance Test Specification.

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Reference of USB Power Delivery Specification Release Dates
Mandate: Required
Effective Date: August, 2023

USB PD Base Specification

Release Date

USB PD R3.1 V1.8 2023-04

Apr 2023

USB PD3.1 V1.7 2023-01

Jan 2023

USB PD3.1 V1.6 2022-10

Oct 2022

USB PD R3.1 V1.5 2022-07

Jul 2022

USB PD V3.1 V1.4 2022-04

Apr 2022

USB PD R3.1 V1.3 2022-01

Jan 2022

USB PD R3.1 V1.2 2021-10

Oct 2021

USB PD R3.1 V1.1 2021-07

Jun 2021

 

Silicon certifications are granted a 18 month grace period starting at the publication date of the base specification.

End-Product certifications are granted a 24 month grace period starting at the publication date of the base specification.

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