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

B

Bandwidth

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.thomsonind.com/ 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.

www.biochip.com/ - BioChip Technologies - Not much info and action yet...

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/Operating_Systems/BIOS.html At Webopedia
www.rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/BIOS_Guide/BIOS_Guide_Index.htm BIOS Guide

BIOS makers:
www.amibios.com/ AMI, American Megatrends
www.phoenix.com/ Award (bought by Phoenix 199809)
www.eurosoft.co.uk/ Eurosoft
www.gensw.com/ General Software
www.ibm.com/ - Search for BIOS IBM
www.intel.com/ - Search for BIOS Intel
www.mrbios.com/ Microid Research (indirectly owned by Phoenix)
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

See also: Chipset.

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/ You need to register first!

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.pagina.nl/ Many good links but some words in Dutch
www.esacademy.com/myacademy/classdescription.php?classid=13 Online Training: Introduction to Bluetooth
www.yuden.co.jp/bluetooth/ Module from Taiyo Yuden
www.arccores.com/ Arc Cores
www.arc.com/ ARC development tool environment
www.psti.com/ Internet protocol stack with RTOS* and drivers
www.atheros.com/ Atheros
www.cisco.com/ Cisco
www.intersil.com/ Intersil
www.lucent.com/ Lucent
www.motorola.com/bluetooth/action/action.html Motorola
www.murata.com/ Murata
www.semiconductors.philips.com/ Philips

Products:
BGB100 Bluetooth radio module www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/bgb100_n_1 Philips
BGB110 Bluetooth radio module www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/bgb110_n_1 Philips
UAA3558 Bluetooth transceiver www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/uaa3558_sds_1 Philips

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

See also PC related stuff.

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:

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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