Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Electronichardware refers to interconnected Electronics electronic components which perform analog circuit analog and or logic operations on received and locally stored information to produce as output and or store resulting new information and or to provide control for output actuator mechanisms. Electronichardware can range from individual chips dn electrical network circuits to distributed information processing systems. Well designed electronichardware is composed of hierarchies of functional modules which inter communicate via precisely defined interfaces. Hardware logic The term hardware logic is primarily a differentiation of the data processing circuitry from other more generalized circuitry. For example nearly all computers include a power supply which consists of circuitry not involved in data processing but rather powering the data processing circuits. Similarly, a computer may output information to a computer monitor or audio amplifier which is also not involved in the computational processes. DEFAULTSORT ElectronicHardware Category Electronics terms Category Electronic engineering Electronics stub Electronics Hardware used in manufacturing Electronics Equipments and Printed circuit boards. FOR EXAMPLE HEATSINKS, PLASTIC COMPONETS Transitor Bushes Transitor PADS, LED HOLDERS, GROMMETS, INSTRUMENT HANDLES, CAPACITOR CLAMPS, TERMINAL BLOCK, RUBBER PVC GROMMETS, BOTTOM GROMMETS, FUSE HOLEDER,EARTHING TAGS, FASTENERS, MICA WASHERS AND MICA INSULATING KITS EARTHING TAGS, TURRET TERMINALS, TEST PINS, SPACERS, STAND OFFS REGULATOR IC BASES, POTLOCK NUT, SILICON PADS, CABLE TIES, CABLE MOUNT, USED IN ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES These Electronics Hardware components helps to assemble fast and some of them give mechanical strength to COMPONENTS ... more details
Other uses File 80486dx2 large.jpg right thumb CPU is a piece of computer hardware No footnotes date May 2009 Hardware is a general term for the Physical property physical cultural artifact artifact s of a technology . It may also mean the physical electronic component components of a computer system , in the form of Personal computer hardware computer hardware . Hardware historically meant the metal parts and fittings that were used to make wooden products stronger, more functional, longer lasting and easier to fabricate or assemble. Citation needed date August 2008 Modern hardware store s typically sell equipment such as Key lock keys , lock device lock s, hinge s, latch hardware latch es, corner s, handle grip handle s, wire , chains, plumbing supplies, tool s, food utensil utensil s, cutlery and machine parts, especially when they are made of metal . Citation needed date August 2008 See also Builders hardware Open source hardwareElectronic component References wiktionary cleanup section date May 2009 http www.askoxford.com concise oed hardware Oxford definition of Hardware http dictionary.cambridge.org results.asp?searchword hardware Cambridge definition of Hardware http merriam webster.com dictionary hardware Merriam Webster definition of Hardware http web.archive.org web 20071126003438 http www.bartleby.com 61 31 H0063100.html Bartleby definition of Hardware http wordnetweb.princeton.edu perl webwn?s armour WordNet definition of Armour http www.encyclopedia.com doc 1G2 3434500705.html Encyclopedia entry for Hardware as an industry Category Equipment tech stub ar ast Soporte f sicu bg ca Maquinari cs Hardware da Isenkram de Hardware et Riistvara es Hardware fa fr Mat riel informatique ko hr Hardware id Perangkat keras komputer he lt Technin ranga hu Hardver ml ms Perkakas computer nl Hardware ja no Maskinvare pl Sprz t pt Hardware ru simple Hardware sl Strojna oprema sr ... more details
wiktionary Electronic may refer to In engineering Electronics , devices inlcuding active amplifying electrical components Electronic communications Electronic engineering Electronic storage of data using an electronic device Electronic stability control In computing and the Internet Electronic computer or computer Electronic digital computer When using computer files or the Internet, often shortened to e , as in e mail for electronic mail Electronic commerce Electronic publishing In entertainment Electronic band or its self titled debut album Electronic album Electronic album Electronics magazine Electronics magazine Electronic music Electronica Electronic Arts , Inc. In warfare Electronic Warfare Electronic countermeasures disambig da Elektronisk simple Electronic ... more details
Incomplete date August 2010 Qi hardware , also called Copyleft hardware , is hardware that attempts to apply the Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation s GNU GPL concept of copyleft copylefting software to the hardware layer. The distinction between copyleft hardware and open source hardware is very similar to the distintion between Free Software and Open Source Software . Copyleft hardware is essentially requiring that all plans for Hardware design id est i.e. circuit diagram schematics , bill of materials and printed circuit board PCB layout data are released under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license and that the software needed to both manufacture the device and at least some software, including device driver drivers , necessary to use the hardware is released under the GNU Public License. Technology for copyleft hardware are to be software patent patent free , and hence, all hardware which is Qi hardware is to be released early, often and publicly on the Internet . The primary examples of copyleft hardware are the Ben Nanonote Ben NanoNote pocket computer, Elphel 353 video camera and Milkymist One Milkymist One interactive VJ station . See also Commons category Open hardware Portal Free software List of open source hardware projects Amateur radio and Amateur television DIY Electronic design automation Engineers Without Borders FreeCAD software Free content Free software Homebrew Computer Club Graphics hardware and FOSS Open CASCADE software development platform freely available in open source. Open content Open design Open source physical design with a wider focus Open source Open source software Open source robotics References Reflist 2 External links http qi hardware.com Official Website http nanonote.cc Nanonote http en.qi hardware.com wiki Milkymist One Milkymist One VJ Workstation Linux devices Intellectual property activism DEFAULTSORT Open Source Hardware Category Open source hardware Category Open machine Hardware ... more details
in the hardware subsystems so that there is a minimum of electrical connections and electronic communications ...dablink This article is about Hardware Architecture the term refers to the architectural design of a physical device, or system, often comprising both hardware and software. For other uses, see for example Computer Architecture , Computer Hardware or Architecture disambiguation . Image LOCKHEED F 117A .... In engineering, hardware architecture refers to the identification of a system s physical components and their interrelationships. This description, often called a hardware design model , allows hardware ... definition of a hardware architecture allows the various traditional engineering disciplines e.g., electrical ... software and hardware architecture for multi shaped robots using real time dynamic behavior identification ... doi 10.1016 j.knosys.2007.05.008 ref Hardware is also an expression used within the computer engineering industry to explicitly distinguish the electronic computer hardware from the software which runs in it. But hardware, within the automation and software engineering disciplines, need not simply ... and distributed throughout the aircraft and resident in both standard computer hardware and in specialized ... assistants PDAs , cell phones, surgical instrumentation, satellites, and submarines. Hardware architecture is therefore the representation of an engineered or to be engineered electronic or electromechanical hardware system, and the process and discipline for effectively implementing the design s for such a system ... a hardware system, the relationships among those elements, and the wiktionary rule rules governing ..., and or a design from that architecture, of a hardware system within a set of constraints ... effective way to design the system within a set of constraints. A hardware architecture is primarily ... operated by or the electronic displays viewed by a User computing user . This latter, special interface ..., optoelectronic, and new microelectromechanical hardware implementation. ref cite journal author Cale ... more details
orphan date February 2010 about the obfuscation of electronichardware obfuscation as used in computer software code obfuscation Hardware obfuscation is a technique by which the description or the structure of electronichardware is modified to intentionally conceal its function engineering functionality ... of a electronic circuit circuit . It is also different from cryptography based hardware IP ... Code obfuscation Hardware Trojan computing References reflist Category Electronic design Category Electronic ... from digital watermarking where the ownership is concealed in the digital content itself , or from hardware ... DAC , 2002. ref The importance of hardware watermarking has increased in the recent years due to wide spread adoption of hardware IP based design practices for modern integrated circuit s ICs such as system on a chip system on chips SoCs . Major security issues associated with hardware IPs include a hardware intellectual property infringement during SoC design b reverse engineering the manufactured ... counterfeit or clone ICs and c malicious modifications of an IP through the insertion of Hardware Trojan computing hardware Trojan to cause in field functional failure . Hardware obfuscation aims ... adversary to comprehend the actual functionality of a design. Hardware obfuscation techniques can ... of the electronic system , and b the active techniques, which directly alter the functionality of the system. Often the active hardware obfuscation techniques are key based , such that normal ... of key based, active hardware obfuscation is similar in principle to symmetric key algorithm ... levels of hardware description, namely gate level or register transfer level RTL design and hence ... and S. Bhunia RTL hardware IP protection using key based control and data flow obfuscation , International ... change in the hardware description language HDL description of a circuit including loop ... programs , Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology CRYPTO , 2001. ref Hardware ... more details
notability Neologisms date January 2010 one source date January 2010 Social Hardware is a branch of Social Technology and related in a natural way to the branch called Social Software . It may be said to have begun with the most primitive writing implements, but the most conspicuous examples are the telegraph and telephone, especially these systems before they used computers at all. The term has entered popular use to describe electronic communications devices beginning with the Mobile phone cellphone , which is usually much more than a telephone. The term Social Hardware appears, perhaps for the first time, in a 1979 book by Johnston and Gummet. ref Johnston, R. and Gummett, P. Eds. . 1979 . Directing Technology. London, Croom Helm, page 9, also quoted on page 136 of Theory of Technology , edited by David E. Clarke ref Since then the term has entered popular culture, most often associated with personal communications devices, beginning with the cellphone. Very often social hardware is associated with social software. A writing tablet and stylus are hardware, alphabets are software. As noted in Social software social procedure , the use of currency such as a dollar bill as money is software, but one most not neglect the considerable difficulties of producing reliable coins and bills which will resist the attempts of counterfeiters. A mint produces the coinage and currency, which are items of hardware, while it is their use in society which makes the monetary system software. Modern pieces of Social Hardware include the landline telephone network and the mobile telephone network cellphones together with the cellphone towers which support them . These may also be described as Information Technology , a more common term, but Information Technology includes hardware for the transmission of all types of information, not just interpersonal communication . It is the use of telephones as interpersonal communication devices which make them social hardware. Notes references See ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 In the automation and engineering environments, the hardware engineer or architect encompasses the electronic engineering and electrical engineering fields, with subspecialities in analog circuit analog , digital , or electromechanical systems. The hardware systems architect or hardware architect is responsible for Interfacing with a systems architect or consumer client ... and or complex hardware systems that require a hardware architect not to require substantial software and a systems architect. The hardware architect will therefore normally interface with a systems architect ... client stakeholders. However, in the absence of a systems architect, the hardware systems architect ... needs to be realized in hardware. The hardware architect may also need to interface directly with a software ... the highest level of hardware requirements, based on the user s needs and other constraints such as cost ... analyses to determine the best methods or approaches for meeting the hardware requirements making ... algorithms and other processes to allocate all present and foreseeable hardware requirements into discrete hardware partitions such that a minimum of communications protocol communications is needed among partitions, and between the user and the system. Partitioning large hardware systems into successive layer s of subsystem s and components each of which can be handled by a single hardware engineer or team of engineers. Ensuring that a maximally robust hardware architecture is developed ... , and the user, which determine that all of the high level hardware requirements have been met, especially ... system. The hardware architect must remain constantly in communication with the end users or a systems ... product of the user and hardware architect or, the systems and hardware architects the user ..., and requirements creep. The development of the first level of hardware engineering requirements is not a purely analytical exercise and should also involve both the hardware architect and engineer ... more details
Hardware can refer to several things Hardware , physical artifacts of a technology Computer hardware , the physical part of a computer Hardware TV series , a British situation comedy Hardware film , a 1990 film Hardware album , a studio album by the heavy metal band Krokus Hardware comics , a character from Milestone Comics Hardware band , a supergroup consisting of Bootsy Collins , Buddy Miles , and Stevie Salas Builders hardware , hardware for doors, cabinets, windows, bathrooms, etc. another name for Military Weapons and Equipment disambig cs Hardware rozcestn k de Hardware Begriffskl rung fr Hardware homonymie it Hardware disambigua ml pl Hardware ujednoznacznienie sv Hardware tl Hardwer paglilinaw th tr Donan m ... more details
Evolvable hardware EH is a new field about the use of evolutionary algorithm s EA to create specialized electronics without manual engineering. It brings together reconfigurable hardware , artificial intelligence , fault tolerance and autonomous system s. Evolvable hardware refers to hardware that can change its architecture and behavior dynamically and autonomously by interacting with its environment. Introduction In its most fundamental form an evolutionary algorithm manipulates a population of individuals where each individual describes how to construct a candidate circuit. Each circuit is assigned a Optimization mathematics fitness , which indicates how well a candidate circuit satisfies the design specification. The evolutionary algorithm uses stochastic operators to evolve new circuit configurations from existing ones. Done properly, over time the evolutionary algorithm will evolve a circuit configuration that exhibits desirable behavior. Each candidate circuit can either be simulated or physically implemented in a reconfigurable device. Typical reconfigurable devices are field ... peculiarities of the hardware that engineers normally avoid. For example, one group of gates ... hardware. In other cases, an existing circuit must adapt i.e., modify its configuration to compensate ... matches the design specification. Fitness in evolvable hardware problems is determined via two ... physical tests are run on actual hardware. In extrinsic evolution only the final best solution in the final .... Future research directions Evolvable hardware problems fall into two categories original design ... Hardware A Practical Guide for Designing Self Adaptive Systems, Wiley IEEE Press, 2006 See ... events ahs2006 NASA ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems AHS 2006 http www.see.ed.ac.uk ahs2007 AHS.htm NASA ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems AHS 2007 NASA used ... Category Electronic design ... more details
Image Ikos NSIM 64.jpg thumb right Ikos NSIM 64 Hardware simulation accelerator. about emulating hardware with other hardware emulation of hardware using software emulator In integrated circuit design , hardware emulation is the process of imitating the behavior of one or more pieces of hardware typically a system under design with another piece of hardware, typically a special purpose emulation system. The goal is normally debugging of the system being designed. Often an emulator is fast enough to be plugged into a working target system in place of a yet to be built chip, so the whole system can be debugged with live data. This is a specific case of In circuit emulator in circuit emulation . Sometimes hardware emulation can be confused with hardware devices such as expansion cards with hardware processors that assist functions of software emulation, such as older daughterboards with x86 chips to allow x86 OSes to run on motherboards of different processor families. Introduction The largest fraction of silicon integrated circuit respins are due to at least in part functional errors. Thus ... designs and almost always too slow to run application software against the hardware design. Field .... Here the design is mapped into a hardware accelerator to run much faster and the testbench and any ... still providing a comprehensive hardware debug environment. Debugging simulations vs. emulations prototyping ... since the entire design executes simultaneously as it will in the silicon. Since the same hardware ... provide a blend of these two very different debugging styles. High end hardware emulators provide ... of accelerators using hardware for implementation they have only two logic states acting the way ... to create multiple copies for system analysis and software development. See also Hardware assisted ... Emulator HP 64000 different CPUs References Electronic Design Automation For Integrated Circuits ... the above summary was derived, with permission. Category Electronic circuit verification ... more details
Refimprove date April 2010 In computing , hardware virtualization is a virtualization of computer s or operating ... E coauthors King D, Lee J, Viehland D year 2008 title Electronic Commerce A Managerial Perspective edition ... is performed on a given hardware platform by host software a control program , which creates a simulated ... software executes as if it were running directly on the physical hardware, with several notable caveats ... device s, or may be limited to a subset of the device s native capabilities, depending on the hardware ..., to increase the utilization of costly hardware resources such as CPU. Although hardware is consolidated ... for an up front hardware purchase. Also, a virtual machine can easily be relocated from one physical ... on a single physical server, in order to more fully utilize the hardware resources of the physical ... of the virtualization software. Full virtualization Main Full virtualization File Hardware Virtualization ... machine simulates enough hardware to allow an unmodified guest OS one designed for the same instruction .... Hardware assisted virtualization Main Hardware assisted virtualization In hardware assisted virtualization , the hardware provides architectural support that facilitates building a virtual machine ..., Computer , vol.38, no.5, pp. 48 56, May 2005 ref Hardware assisted virtualization was first .... In 2005 and 2006, Intel and AMD provided additional hardware to support virtualization. Sun Microsystems ... in 2005. Examples of virtualization platforms adapted to such hardware include Kernel based Virtual ... . Hardware platforms with integrated virtualization technologies include x86 virtualization x86 and x86 ... multiple instances of much of an underlying hardware environment, particularly address space ... . This capability requires virtual memory address relocation hardware, and has been present in most ... which features have been used by a given application. If certain hardware features are not simulated ... , the virtual machine does not necessarily simulate hardware, but instead or in addition ... more details
Handy Hardware is a hardware store retailers cooperative serving 1,200 retailers in 12 states in the United States , from Colorado to Florida, and in Mexico and Central America as well. It was founded in 1954 in Houston, Texas . ref http catalog2.handyhardware.com WebSiteModule MainPage.html ref Handy Hardware is a member owner of Distribution America, second largest wholesale marketing organization in the United States. ref http www.daonline.com retailers.html ref External links http www.handyhardware.com Handy Hardware http www.handyhardware.ie Handy Hardware Ireland References reflist Category Retailers cooperatives Category Companies established in 1954 Category Companies based in Houston, Texas Category Hardware stores of the United States US retail stub ... more details
Hardware Secrets is a leading US based PC hardware review website, published by Brazil born Gabriel Torres . Torres is also the owner of the largest website about computers in South America , Clube do Hardware . Hardware Secrets motto is Uncomplicating the Complicated . This approach has often given Hardware Secrets a unique edge over other PC hardware review websites by providing a number of how to articles, data sheets and computer autopsies , including the very popular http www.hardwaresecrets.com article 327 Anatomy of Switching Power Supplies . Hardware Secrets was launched back in 1999, with its current design and focus introduced in January 2005. External links http www.hardwaresecrets.com Hardware Secrets website Category Computing websites Category Internet forums ... more details
for hard disk drive caddies disk enclosure In computer hardware, a caddy refers to a sheath used to hold some media. If the medium is a hard disk drive , the caddy is also referred to as a disk enclosure , which is discussed there. It also refers to optical disks, such as CD ROM s, which are the focus of this article. The purpose of a disk caddy is to protect the disk from damage when handling their use dates back to at least the Capacitance Electronic Disc in 1976, and they were used in initial versions of Blu ray Disc s, ref name BDF general whitepaper cite web url http www.blu raydisc.com Assets Downloadablefile general bluraydiscformat 15263.pdf format PDF title White paper, Blu ray Disc Format, General author Blu ray Disc Founders accessdate 2009 04 16 date 2004 08 ref though newer versions use Blu ray Disc Hard coating technology hard coating technology to prevent scratches and do not need a caddy. Caddies may be an integral part of the media as in some DVD RAM discs, or separately attached. Examples File Macintosh centris 660av.jpg left thumb A CD caddy being inserted into a Macintosh Centris 660AV Caddies date at least to the Capacitance Electronic Disc , which used a caddy from 1976 to protect the grooves of the disc. ref cite web title Comparison of 1977 CED Media to Final Production Media publisher CEDMagic.com url http cedmagic.com history ced 1977 vs 1982.html accessdate 2007 03 10 ref File Cd caddies JPG.jpg right thumb Two Compact Disc caddies Some early CD ROM drives used a mechanism where CDs had to be inserted into special cartridges or caddies, somewhat similar in appearance to a jewel case . Although the idea behind this a tougher plastic shell to protect the disc from damage was sound, it did not gain wide acceptance among disc manufacturers. Drives that used the caddy format required bare discs to be placed into a caddy before use, making them less ... Category Computer storage media Comp hardware stub ... more details
Unreferenced date October 2008 Porter Hardware , the oldest continually operating hardware store in the state of Alabama , was opened in 1889 by Edwin Russell Porter and Joel Murphree in the city of Dothan, Alabama Dothan and is still operated today by Mr. Porter s descendants. The interior and exterior of Porter Hardware remains virtually unaltered and it maintains a large inventory of hardware and hard to find items. History Mr. Porter bought the lot on East Main Street in Dothan, Alabama for 300 and built the E.R. Porter Hardware building. Mr. Murphree sold his interest in the hardware to Mr. Porter a few years later and moved back to Troy, Alabama . Porter Hardware has remained in the Porter family ever since. Mr. Porter died in 1944, and it was his desire that the hardware store continue to retain its original appearance. Since that time, everything except the type of inventory has remained the same. Porter Hardware is currently owned by Mr. Porter s daughter, Jane Porter Thrower and is managed by his granddaughter, Jane Thrower II. His great grandson E.R. Conaway is also employed at Porter Hardware. The Hardware One of the city of Dothan, Alabama Dothan s first rope elevators made by the Otis Elevator company is still in daily operation at Porter Hardware. Porter Hardware has its original embossed tin ceilings, but part of the flooring was replaced in the 1940s. The sliding ladders located on the side aisles of the store are still used to get hard to reach items. The Office The office of Porter Hardware has an antique safe and a vault with an ornately decorated door. There are pictures of the founder Mr. Porter and one of his managers H.T. Scarborough who helped manage Porter Hardware for 60 year until his retirement in 1976. There is also a picture of the store taken ... community of Dothan, Alabama Dothan is, if Porter Hardware doesn t have it, it s not in town Category Hardware stores of the United States Category Companies based in Dothan, Alabama Category Retail ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Proprietary hardware is computer hardware which is owned by the proprietor . Historically, most early computer hardware was designed as proprietary until the 1980s, when IBM PC changed this paradigm. Earlier, in 1970s, many vendors tried to challenge IBM s monopoly in the mainframe computer market by reverse engineering and producing hardware components electrically compatible with expensive equipment and usually able to run the same software. Those vendors were nicknamed plug compatible manufacturers PCMs . See also Vendor lock in Micro Channel architecture , a commonly cited historical example of proprietary hardware Proprietary software Compu hardware stub DEFAULTSORT Proprietary Hardware Category Computer peripherals ... more details
semiprotected Builders hardware , or just builders hardware , is a group of metal hardware specifically ... include door handle s, door hinge s, Deadbolt bolts , latch hardware latches , numerals, letter plates, switch plates, and door knocker s. Builders hardware is commonly available in brass , steel , aluminium , stainless steel , and iron . Main suppliers in the world of builders hardware mainly exist in China, India, Mexico and some in the U.S. Classifications While builders hardware is classified ... it is used, or by usage. Bathroom hardware Bathroom hardware includes the products that are used in constructing ... s, shower s, holders, tubs, shelves, mirrors, etc. Door hardware All those products that are used either in door decoration, maintenance, or in any other function come under door hardware, such as door handles, fasteners, hinges , hooks, number plates, knockers, etc. Furniture hardware Furniture hardware are those products that are used to support the furniture look, design and durability. Furniture hardware products include furniture frames, furniture legs, furniture arms, etc. Safety & security hardware Buildings, goods and their occupants needs protection from fire, intruders, and other ... detector s, lockset locksets , window guards, etc. Plumbing hardware Plumbing hardware products are used for supplying water throughout the building using hose, pipes and tubes. These hardware products ... . Cabinet hardware The products that are used to make cabinets working come under cabinet hardware like cabinet fasteners, brackets, latches, hinges, pulls, locks, etc. Cabinet hardware are small ... s and may be glass es. Window hardware Window hardware does not include window itself rather they are smaller ..., fasteners, handles, hinges, locks and many more. Curtain hardware Curtain hardware includes products ... hardware products are made of varieties of materials including metals and plastics. Mostly aluminum ... last Towne first Henry Robinson title Locks and builders hardware a hand book for architects publisher ... more details
Hardware mixing is a performance feature of computer audio hardware which enables sound card s to receive multiple audio streams and play them all at the same time. Hardware mixing improves performance by offloading audio mixing operations from the CPU and performing them at hardware speeds. In addition to mixing, the hardware performs related operations such as sample rate conversion SRC , attenuation, and, optionally, 3D processing that would otherwise need to be performed in software. On Microsoft Windows , hardware mixing is also referred to as hardware buffering or sometimes, questionably as DirectSound hardware acceleration . Those cards which offer hardware mixing include professional multichannel audio interfaces and Creative Labs X Fi, Live & Audigy series soundcards. Fact date June 2009 See also Sound card DirectSound External links http www.alsa project.org jfulmer alsa faq.html Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ALSA FAQs Categories Category Computer peripherals Category Sound cards Category Audio mixing ... more details
unreferenced date July 2009 Hardware acceleration in computing is the use of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in computer software software running on the general purpose Central processing unit CPU . Examples of hardware acceleration include blitting acceleration functionality in graphics processing unit s GPUs and instructions for complex operations in CPUs. Normally, processors are sequential, and instructions are executed one by one. Various techniques are used to improve performance hardware acceleration is one of them. The main difference between hardware and software is concurrency computer science concurrency , allowing hardware to be much faster than software. Hardware accelerators are designed for computationally intensive software code. Depending upon granularity, hardware acceleration can vary from a small functional unit to a large functional block like motion estimation in MPEG 2 . The hardware that performs the acceleration, when in a separate unit from the CPU, is referred to as a hardware accelerator , or often more specifically as graphics accelerator or floating point unit floating point accelerator , etc. Those terms, however, are older and have been replaced with less descriptive terms like video card or graphics card . Recently, regular expression hardware acceleration has been gaining popularity in the server industry, owing to very noticeable speed ups in anti spam techniques spam control . citation needed date January 2011 See also GPGPU TCP Offload Engine Categories Category Computer hardware de Hardwarebeschleunigung es Aceleraci n por hardware fr Acc l ration mat rielle ko it Acceleratore informatica nl Hardware acceleratie ja ru sr sv H rdvaruacceleration zh ... more details
dablink Hardware Store is also the title of a song by Weird Al Yankovic from his 2003 album Poodle Hat ... Inside Tweedy and Popp Hardware, Seattle, Washington 2007 . Hardware stores , sometimes known as Do it yourself DIY stores , sell household hardware including fastener s, hand tools , power tools, Key ... directly to consumers for use at home or for business. Many hardware stores have specialty departments ... with a hardware store owner to have a full service postal counter in the store which is operated by the store employees. Larger hardware stores may sell small amounts of building supplies including lumber ... are usually referred to as Home Centers or Lumberyards. There may be fewer hardware stores in the U.S. now than in years past, but according to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were still 14,300 hardware ... commonly referred to as Big box or destination hardware stores new hardware stores in the U.S. are still ... 11 3 new ace hardware locations i.html Article from Oakland Business Review archived on Mlive site ref ... major nationwide wholesale suppliers to Hardware Stores. All four report more than 1 billion US Dollars ..., True Value company from Chicago Illinois and Ace Hardware from Oakbrook Illinois. ref name sec.gov Hardware store owners purchase stock in these suppliers and are members and owners as well as customers. A hardware store may choose to include the name of the cooperative in the advertised name of the store ... that does not operate as a cooperative. Hardware stores also purchase from a variety of regional ..., Florida Hardware, Handy Hardware, HDW, Inc, House Hasson Hardware , Jensen Distribution, Monroe Hardware, and United Hardware ref http www.nrha.org v2 Hardware Retailing Article.aspx?slug distribution america pro group hold executive planning conference North America Retail Hardware Association ref . Manufacturers include Black and Decker, Rubbermaid and Weber. Some hardware stores operate rental ... supplies. The major hardware cooperatives provide brand name rental advertising and support for hardware ... more details
unreferenced date October 2009 Merge Hardware abstraction layer date July 2008 Hardware abstractions are sets of routines in Computer software software that emulate some System platform platform specific details, giving programs direct access to the Computer hardwarehardware resources. They often allow programmers to write Computer hardware device independent, high performance applications by avoiding standard Operating System OS calls to hardware. The process of abstracting pieces of hardware is often done from the perspective of a CPU . Each type of CPU has a specific instruction set architecture or ISA. The ISA represents the primitive operations of the machine that are available for use by assembly programmers and compiler writers. One of the main functions of a compiler is to allow a programmer to write an algorithm in a high level language without having to care about CPU specific instructions. Then it is the job of the compiler to generate a CPU specific executable. The same type of abstraction is made in operating systems, but OS API s now represent the primitive operations of the machine, rather than an ISA. This allows a programmer to use OS level operations i.e. task creation deletion in their programs while still remaining portable over a variety of different platforms. See also Abstraction layer Hardware abstraction layer Category Operating system technology software type stub ko zh ... more details
Infobox Company company name Aubuchon Hardware company logo Image Logo aubuchon.png 200px Aubuchon Hardware Logo company type Private company Private company slogan We ll Fix You Right Up. foundation February 9, 1908 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts location Westminster, Massachusetts Westminster, MA , United States key people William E. Aubuchon, Sr d 1971 , Founder BR William E. Aubuchon, III , CEO BR M. Marcus Moran, Jr , President industry Retailer Retail Hardware products home appliance s, handtool s, powertool s, electrical , hardware , plumbing , lawn and garden , paint , automotive , heating and Air conditioning cooling , fasteners homepage http www.hardwarestore.com www.hardwarestore.com Aubuchon Hardware is a hardware store chain in the northeastern United States consisting of 140 paint and hardware stores and one lumber yard throughout Vermont , Massachusetts , New Hampshire , Maine , Connecticut , and upstate New York . Aubuchon Hardware competes with big box hardware chains such as The Home Depot and Lowe s as well as retailers cooperative s such as Ace Hardware and True Value . History Aubuchon Hardware was founded in 1908 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts . For many years it did not publish its stores telephone numbers since the company thought phone calls would distract salespeople from giving in store customers the best possible service this policy has been eliminated. Aubuchon Hardware is also noteworthy for its aggressive search engine marketing which has led to heightened brand awareness as well as strong sales growth of its online operations. Some of Aubuchon s recent growth has come from buying out retiring hardware store owners and converting their franchised or independent stores to the Aubuchon banner. Aubuchon Hardware has closed a number of underperforming stores recently, including locations in Rutland city , Vermont Rutland and Springfield, Vermont , Claremont ... of Aubuchon Hardware CEO William E. Aubuchon III Category Hardware stores of the United States Category ... more details
Networking hardware typically refers to equipment facilitating the use of a computer networking computer network . Typically, this includes router s, network switch switches , ethernet hub hubs , Gateway telecommunications gateways , wireless access point access point s, network interface card s, Networking cables , network bridge s, modem s, Integrated Services Digital Network ISDN adapters , Firewall computing firewalls and other related hardware. The most common kind of networking hardware today is copper based Ethernet Network interface card adapters , helped largely by its standard inclusion on most modern computer systems. 802.11 Wireless networking has become increasingly popular, however, especially for portable and handheld devices. Other hardware prevalent within computer networking is datacenter equipment such as file server s, database server s and storage area network storage area s , network service s such as Domain name system DNS , DHCP , email etc as well as other specific network devices such as Content Delivery Network content delivery . Other diverse devices which may be considered Networking hardware include mobile phone s, Personal digital assistant PDAs and even modern coffee machine s. As technology grows and Internet Protocol IP based networks are integrated into building infrastructure and household utilities, network hardware becomes an ambiguous statement owing to the increasing number of network capable endpoints. External links http fcit.usf.edu network chap3 chap3.htm USF Explanation of network hardware http www.networkliquidators.com ISO 2008 Certified Website Commonscat Network hardware Category Networking hardware be x old et Sidev rguseadmed es Hardware de red pt Hardware de rede ru ... more details
primarysources article date July 2007 Gibraltar Hardware is a maker of drumset and percussion Drum hardwarehardware . It s most famed for making drumset frames and cages, but it also makes everything from hi hat stands to drumset thrones . Various artists use Gibraltar hardware on their drum s, including Lamb Of God s Chris Adler and Luis Conte . Gibraltar percussion hardware is a proprietary product of Kaman Music , a large independent distributor of musical instrument s and accessories. It was part of the company Kaman , which is also a manufacturer of aircraft structures and components and a distributor of parts and equipment to the North America n industry. In early 2008, Kaman sold its musical interests to the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation , which not only includes Gibraltar Hardware, but Gretsch drums as well. ref cite web url http phx.corporate ir.net phoenix.zhtml?c 104951&p irol newsArticle&ID 1090487 title Kaman Completes the Sale of Its Music Segment publisher Kaman Corp. ref Gibraltar products Drum Pedals Drum Thrones Hi hat Stands Percussion Stands Practice Pads Racks Clamps Speciality Stands Bags Accessories Kenny Thompson Model 252A Percussion mallet Drumsticks See also Drum hardware References Reflist External links http www.gibraltarhardware.com Home page http www.kamanmusic.com Kaman Music http www.kaman.com Kaman http diy.gibraltarhardware.com Gibraltar Hardware Blog http www.musicianshut.com about gibraltar hardware About Gibraltar Hardware Category Percussion instrument manufacturing companies musical instrument company stub sv Gibraltar Hardware ... more details
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