To make this possible, there’s a CC (Configuration Channel) connection – a single-wire line in every USB-C cable that attaches to one of the two CC pins in the Type-C connector, and it is ...

Now, if you want to make a device with a USB-C plug, the wiring is the same. The only difference is that you only need to populate one of the CC pull-downs, and wire up one pair of D+/D- pins ...

A USB Type-A-to-C cable could handle USB 3.0 or higher speeds, it could be limited to USB 2.0, or it could even have no data pins and only support charging. You have no way of knowing until you ...