USB-B Cable: Type-A Plug to Type-B Plug, Wired to the USB 2.0 Specification

A USB-B cable joins a computer (Type-A plug) to a device such as an Arduino board or a printer (Type-B plug). The USB 2.0 Specification (USB Implementers Forum, 2000) fixes the wiring: contact 1 VBUS on the red wire, 2 D- white, 3 D+ green, 4 GND black, and the plug shells joined through the cable's shield. It also sets the cable's build and its limits: a twisted green-white data pair, a red-black power pair, foil and braid shields, no more than 26 ns of delay, and less than 0.6 ohm from shell to shell. This rung works out how long the cable may be, then cuts a 1.5 m shielded cable, solders a Type-A plug to one end and a Type-B plug to the other, and checks every wire with a multimeter. Source: Universal Serial Bus Specification Rev. 2.0, sections 6.4.1, 6.5.2, 6.6, 7.1.16, 7.2.2. Picture: our own drawing.