glossary category

A piece of hardware that connects two or more computers to a single keyboard, monitor, and mouse

International technology roadmap for semiconductors

Information technology equipment

Information technology

International Organization for Standardization

See whiskers, iron

A global organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic, and related technologies

A class of arithmetic, commonly used in computers. Integer arithmetic deals only in whole numbers, e.g., 1, 2, 99, 4563. Any calculation that does not result in a nice whole number is truncated back to a nice whole number and the fractional part is thrown away, e.g., 9/4 = 2 and not 2.25 or two and a quarter. Typically, computers can perform integer arithmetic more quickly than they can any other form of arithmetic, so most programs do as much work as they can in integer. However, most computers have significant limits on the values they can manage in integer format.

Flow of outdoor air into a building through cracks and other unintentional openings and through the normal use of exterior doors for entrance and egress. Also known as air leakage into a building

Formerly, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.