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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.