System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems

Commonly Used USB Acronyms

The following table describes the USB acronyms that are used in the Solaris OS. For a complete description of USB components and acronyms, go to:

http://www.usb.org

Acronym 

Definition 

For More Information 

UGEN 

USB generic driver 

ugen(7D)

USB 

Universal Serial Bus 

usb(7D)

USBA 

Universal Serial Bus Architecture (Solaris) 

usba(7D)

USBAI 

USBA Client Driver Interface (Solaris) 

N/A 

HCD 

USB host controller driver 

N/A 

EHCI 

Enhanced Host Controller Interface 

ehci(7D)

OHCI 

Open Host Controller Interface 

ohci(7D)

UHCI 

Universal Host Controller Interface 

uhci(7D)