The ATtiny84A BGA package. Granted, there are only contacts on one side of the PCB, but that shouldn't matter with the symmetric USB-C pinout, right? ...Right? (foreshadowing) The 3mm-square ATtiny ...

These are, by now, a tried and true kind of USB-C chip – you will find these from at least a dozen different manufacturers; if you find a few ICs that have the same pinout, it’ll be hard for ...

The pinout is compatible with the widely available SparkFun RP2040, with extra GPIO12..16 pins broken out on the lower side. USB VBUS detection on GPIO19. This pinout is a de facto standard, ...

USB-C is one of those things that generally everyone seems to agree on that it is a ‘good thing’, but is it really? In this first part of a series on USB-C, [Andreas Spiess] takes us through ...