Electronics and Connectors Standards

11 standards in electronics and connectors, listed alphabetically with issuing body and first publication year.

ATX

National and OtherElectronics and Connectors1995

The motherboard and power supply specification Intel published in 1995, replacing the AT design. It standardized mounting holes...

DisplayPort

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors2006

The packet based video interface of the Video Electronics Standards Association, released in 2006 as an open successor to DVI and...

HDMI

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors2002

High Definition Multimedia Interface, released in December 2002 by founders including Hitachi, Panasonic, Philips, Silicon Image...

IEC 60309

IECElectronics and Connectors1960s

International Electrotechnical Commission standard for industrial power plugs and sockets, rooted in the CEE 17 series of the...

IEEE 1394 FireWire

IEEEElectronics and Connectors1995

The high speed serial bus Apple designed and IEEE standardized in 1995, running 400 and later 800 megabits per second with daisy...

IEEE 754

IEEEElectronics and Connectors1985

The standard for binary floating point arithmetic, produced by an IEEE committee led by William Kahan. It defined formats...

NFC

ECMAElectronics and Connectors2002

Near Field Communication, specified by Sony and Philips from 2002 and approved as ISO/IEC 18092 and ECMA-340 in 2003, lets...

PCI Express

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors2003

The point to point interconnect PCI-SIG introduced in 2003, replacing shared parallel PCI and AGP slots. Data flows over scalable...

RS-232

National and OtherElectronics and Connectors1960

The serial interface standard first issued by the Electronic Industries Association in 1960, defining signal voltages and, from...

USB

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors1996

Universal Serial Bus was developed by a group of seven companies including Intel, Compaq, IBM and Microsoft, with version 1.0...

USB Type-C

ConsortiumElectronics and Connectors2014

The 24 pin reversible connector whose specification was published in August 2014. It carries data, video and up to 240 watts of...