ABC of electronics terms

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(To find chips for distinct functions, see the functional pages.)

B

Bandwidth

www.seas.upenn.edu/~gaj1/bandgg.html

Battery

Where	Manufacturer
www.duracell.com/	Duracell
www.eveready.com/	Eveready
www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home96/nov96/batt.html	About plastic batteries
www.power-sonic.com/	Power-Sonic

Bearing

Where	Manufacturer
www.danahermotion.com/	Used to be Thomson

Big Endian

See Endianess.

Binary to Decimal conversion

local

Texts about binary to decimal conversion

Biochip

Chips whose functionaing is based on biological mechanisms like DNA.

See also Microelectronics, Microengineering and Nanotechnology for other alternative technologies.

BIOS

Basic Input Output System.
The startup and driver routines for a motherboard, making the OS* above it 'independent' from the peculiarities of it's hardware.

www.computerssquare.com/Hardware_Components_BIOS.html	At Computers Square
www.matrix-bios.nl/	The site about BIOS's
www.wimsbios.com/	Wim's BIOS Page
news:comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips	Newsgroup
webopedia.internet.com/TERM/B/BIOS.html	At Webopedia

BIOS makers:

www.ami.com/amibios/	AMI, American Megatrends
www.phoenix.com/	Award BIOS (bought by Phoenix 199809)
www.gensw.com/	General Software
www.ibm.com/ - Search for BIOS	IBM
www.intel.com/ - Search for BIOS	Intel
www2.esupport.com/	Microid Research (MrBios), now part of Phoenix-Award
www2.esupport.com/	Phoenix-Award BIOS and AMI BIOS
www.phoenix.com/	Phoenix
www.systemsoft.com/	SystemSoft

BIOS customization by OEM's

Books in English:

title	order at Amazon USA	price indication
BIOS Companion (paperback)	ISBN: 1889671207	$40
BIOS Companion (ring-bound)	ISBN: 1872498108	$25
PC BIOS Internals: Maximize Your PC'S BIOS	ISBN: 1557553424	$30
Uninterrupted Interrupts: A Programmer's CD-ROM Reference to Network APIs and to BIOS, DOS and Third-Party Calls	ISBN: 0201409666	$50
PC Bios: Improve and Upgrade Your PC'S Computing Power!	ISBN: 1557553424	$24

Books in German:

title	order at Amazon DE	price indication
Das BIOS - Buch	ISBN: 3772348343	DM 100
BIOS: Das Buch	ISBN: 3815500249	DM 60
PC - Hardwarebuch, 6. Auflage	ISBN: 3827314615	DM 120
BIOS Tuning: Top Ten Themen	ISBN: 3815580331	DM 30
PC Hardware Referenz: Infos zur gesamten Hardware im schnellen Zugriff	ISBN: 3827256062	DM 90
PC-BIOS für 386/486 Pentium Taschentabelle	ISBN: 388963365X	DM 10
Programmierleitfaden IBM ROM BIOS	ISBN: 3528046465	DM 30
Das System - BIOS Pentium/Pentium Pro 2: Taschentabelle	ISBN: 3889633749	DM 10

Books in Dutch:

title	can't order directly	price indication
Het BIOS-Boek + CD-ROM	www.nl.bol.com/ - ISBN: 9043001120	Dfl 60
BIOS Tuning	www.nl.bol.com/ - ISBN: 9051672225	Dfl 50
BIOS Gids	www.nl.bol.com/ - ISBN: 9041904824	Dfl 50

Bipolar transistor

www.americanmicrosemi.com/tutorials/bipolartransistor.htm

Biz Card Computer

Short for Business Card Sized Computer.

Blower

Where	Manufacturer
www.ebm.com/	EBM/Papst

Board

www.techonline.com/

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Bubble memory

Bubble memory was for a few years 'the technology of the future'. It involves magnetic island in some sort of substrate and is read serially in rows, which are moved using a magnetic field. Some lap-tops used a bubble memory module as a floppy kind of storage, but it was not exchangable...

Their bit density per mm2 was soon after surpassed by the regular DRAM*'s and harddisks but perhaps there is still some niche market for bubble memory somewhere?
Hitachi produced them as BDG0103. I got a request for them around 199807.

Bluetooth

Short distance packet radio standard to connect laptops, mobile phones, PC's and much more.

www.bluetooth.com/	Official Bluetooth Site
bluetooth.startpagina.nl/	Many good links but some words in Dutch
www.esacademy.com/myacademy/classdescription.php?classid=13	Online Training: Introduction to Bluetooth
www.arc.com/	ARC development tool environment
www.atheros.com/	Atheros
www.cisco.com/	Cisco
www.intersil.com/	Intersil
www.lucent.com/	Lucent
direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/bluetoothpromotion/bluetooth.asp	Motorola
www.murata.com/	Murata
www.nxp.com/	NXP, formerly Philips Semiconductors

Products:

www.nxp.com/search/?query=bluetooth

Search at NXP

See also IRDA, a similar but infrared light based standard.

Bus

See CAN
See CompactPCI*
See IDE*
See ISDN
See MIDI*
See PCI*
See SCSI*
See VME

Business Card Sized Computer

Small computer with the size of a business card. Those are the little credit card sized cards that business men exchange so they can more easily reach each other again to do business.

Other small PCB* formats are:

Half Euro Card
PC-100 (?)
PCMCIA
SimmStick (?)

www.spectrumengineering.com/	68376 based Biz Card Computer
www.pemicro.com/	Card with 68F333, but also small?

See also under Board, when you're looking for a specific board.

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