Computer Buses, Ports & Interfaces

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Offers information about ATA and ATAPI devices. Also provides drivers and historical information.

The online publication for designers and builders of bus/board-based systems. Including VMEbus, CompactPCI, PCI, ISA, PC/104, Mezzanine,..

Unincorporated association of members of the microcomputer industry set up to for the purpose of monitoring and enhancing the development of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) architecture.

An international standards body and trade association with over 300 member companies that was founded in 1989 to establish standards for Integrated Circuit cards and to promote interchangeability among mobile computers where ruggedness, low power, and small size were critical.

Responsible for all interface standards relating to the popular AT Attachment (ATA) storage interface utilized as the disk drive interface on most personal and mobile computers today.

VESA was established in 1989 to set and support industry-wide interface standards designed for the PC, workstation, and other computing environments.

VMEbus information, membership roster, training, and market information. New products directory including a VMEbus virtual trade show, Journal Magazine and standards organization and links.

Information on SCSI bus interface, standards, manufacturers and distributors, technical information, books and test equipment, a part of the Virtual Libraries system.

Includes detailed information on USP, serial ports (RS-232), parallel ports (SPP, ECP, EPP, IEEE1284) and device drivers.

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Provides circuits, pinouts, cable and adapter descriptions plus other technical information.

Founded to support the development of computer and consumer electronics systems that can be easily connected with each other via a single serial multimedia link.

International organization that creates and promotes interoperable, low cost infrared data interconnection standards that support a walk-up, point-to-point user model. The standards support a broad range of appliances, computing and communications devices.

The technical committee of the National Committee on Information Technology Standards (NCITS). This is the place to find more information about I/O Interfaces, especially SCSI, SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 including SPI-2 (Fast-40 or Ultra2 SCSI), Low Voltage Differential (LVD), SPI-3 (Ultra3 SCSI or Ultra160), SPI-4 (Ultra320), SPI-5 (Ultra640), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and much more. There are also pointers here to other web sites on Fibre Channel, ATA (IDE), and ATAPI.

Small Computer System Interface, an official industry standard for 12 years. Continues to evolve in order to meet the demands of the most sophisticated systems and recognizes virtually every peripheral type and taking advantage of newer hardware and more intelligent controllers. The data path has been widened and tranfer speeds have been increased to keep pace with system requirements

Information related USB and the USB standard.

Information about Computer Hard Disk Interfaces.