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1. TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER NO. PAGE NO.
1. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................1
1. Thunderbolt Technology. ....................................................................................1
1.2 Developed By ....................................................................................................2
1.3 Commercial Launch...........................................................................................2
1.4 Why it is so expansive? .....................................................................................2
2. TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW.....................................................................................3
2.1 Key features........................................................................................................3
2.2 General specifications........................................................................................4
2.3 Rethinking I/O....................................................................................................4
2.4 Connector Pin Diagram......................................................................................5
2.5 Copper vs. Optical..............................................................................................6
2.6 Peripherals Devices............................................................................................7
2.7 Security...............................................................................................................7
3. PROTOCOLS IN THUNDERBOLT..........................................................................8
3.1 Protocol Architecture.........................................................................................9
3.2 Controller Architecture.....................................................................................11
4. THUNDERBOLT TECHNOLOGY AND POSSIBILITES.....................................13
4.1 No Project is to massive...................................................................................14
4.2 Changing the PC industries..............................................................................14
4.3 Performance and expansion made faster & smarter.........................................14
5. EARLY VERSION OF THUNDERBOLT................................................................15
5.1 Evolution of Speed...........................................................................................15
5.2 Thunderbolt technology...................................................................................16
6. THUNDERBOLT VS. OTHER ESISTING I/O INTERFACE...............................17
6.1 Thunderbolt vs. USB 3.0..................................................................................17
6.2 Ethernet............................................................................................................18
6.3 FireWire............................................................................................................18
6.4 Hard Drives SATA 6Gps.................................................................................18
6.5 Thunderbolt Covers all the bases.....................................................................18
7. THUNDERBOLT 2......................................................................................................19
7.1 What does Thunderbolt 2 have to do with 4K video? .....................................19

2. 7.2 How does Thunderbolt 2 compare to USB 3.1? ..............................................20
7.3 Will drives using the original Thunderbolt work with Thunderbolt 2? ..........20
8. FUTURE SCOPE:- THUNDERBOLT 3......................................................................21
8.1 Full 4K Video Experience................................................................................22
8.2 Best Single-Cable Docking External................................................................22
8.3 Graphics Technology........................................................................................22
8.4 Features............................................................................................................22
9. CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................23
10. REFERENCES.............................................................................................................24

3. LIST OF TABLES
Table No. Title Page No.
2.1 General Specification 4
2.2 Connector Pin Diagram 6
5.1 Evolution Of Speed 15

4. LIST OF FIGURES
Figure
No.
Title Page No.
1.1 Thunderbolt port 1
2.1 Thunderbolt cable expands laptop to a higher resolution display and high
performance storage in a simple daisy-chain manner
5
2.2 20 pin Apple Thunderbolt connector 5
3.1 Thunderbolt Protocol 8
3.2 Protocol Architecture 10
3.3
Block diagram of PC system showing Thunderbolt controller connections.
12
6.1
speed of different I/O interfaces
17
7.1
Thunderbolt 2 supports 4K video transfer
19
7.2
Thunderbolt cable
20
8.1
Thunderbolt 3
21