System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems

Commonly Used USB Acronyms

The following table describes the USB acronyms that are used in the Solaris environment. For a complete description of USB components and acronyms, go to http://www.usb.org.

Acronym 

Definition 

ugen 

USB generic driver 

USB 

Universal Serial Bus 

USBA 

Universal Serial Bus Architecture (Solaris) 

USBAI 

USBA Client Driver Interface (Solaris) 

HCD 

USB host controller driver 

EHCI 

Enhanced Open Controller Interface 

OHCI 

Open Host Controller Interface 

UHCI 

Universal Host Controller Interface