The symbol for bit, as a unit of information, is either simply " bit " ( recommended by the ISO / IEC standard 80000-13 ( 2008 )) or lowercase " b " ( recommended by the IEEE 1541 Standard ( 2002 )).

However, since the 1990s, the most commonly encountered representation is that defined by the IEEE 754 Standard.

Zuse also proposed, but did not complete, carefully rounded floating – point arithmetic that would have included ±∞ and NaNs, anticipating features of IEEE Standard floating – point by four decades.

* POSIX. 1, Core Services ( incorporates Standard ANSI C ) ( IEEE Std 1003. 1-1988 )

* IEEE 1363: Standard Specifications for Public-Key Cryptography

SPARC V8 served as the basis for IEEE Standard 1754-1994, an IEEE standard for a 32-bit microprocessor architecture.

* 828-2012 Currently active IEEE Standard which supersedes / supports older ones.

The IEEE Std 610. 12-1990 Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology defines the following distinctions:

* IEEE 754-2008 Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic ( requires login / not free )

* IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic ( IEEE 754 )

See floating point and IEEE Floating Point Standard.

* SUSP ( IEEE P1281 ) Draft Standard 1. 12, July 8, 1994.

* RRIP ( IEEE P1282 ) Draft Standard 1. 12, July 8, 1994

AAUI signals have the same description, function, and electrical requirements as the Attachment Unit Interface ( AUI ) signals of the same name, as detailed in IEEE 802. 3-1990 CSMA / CD Standard, section 7, with the exception that most hosts provide only 5 volt power rather than the 12 volts required for most AUI transceivers.

In radar applications, it ranges from 12-18 GHz according to the formal definition of radar frequency band nomenclature in IEEE Standard 521-2002 .< ref > Note that in the band 11. 2 – 12 GHz the working definitions of K < sub > u </ sub > band and X band overlap ; satellite communications engineers would generally regard frequencies above 11. 2 GHz as being part of the K < sub > u </ sub > band .</ ref >

* IEEE, " IEEE Standard, 696 Interface Devices ", 1983

The IEEE Std 1596-1992, IEEE Standard for Scalable Coherent Interface ( SCI ) was approved by the IEEE standards board on March 19, 1992.

* 896. 1-1987 IEEE Standard Backplane Bus Specifications for Multiprocessor Architectures: Futurebus

* 1101-1987 IEEE Standard for Mechanical Core Specifications for Microcomputers Using IEC 603-2 Connectors

* 896. 1-1991 IEEE Standard for Futurebus + — Logical Protocol Specification

The updated IEEE 1076, in 1993, made the syntax more consistent, allowed more flexibility in naming, extended the type to allow ISO-8859-1 printable characters, added the operator, etc.

IEEE standard 1076. 2 added better handling of real and complex data types.

IEEE standard 1076. 3 introduced signed and unsigned types to facilitate arithmetical operations on vectors.

IEEE standard 1076. 1 ( known as VHDL-AMS ) provided analog and mixed-signal circuit design extensions.

IEEE 1076. 6 defines a subset of the language that is considered the official synthesis subset.

* IEEE 1076. 1 VHDL Analog and Mixed-Signal

* IEEE 1076. 1. 1 VHDL-AMS Standard Packages ( stdpkgs )

* IEEE 1076. 2 VHDL Math Package ( math )

* IEEE 1076. 3 VHDL Synthesis Package ( vhdlsynth )

* IEEE 1076. 3 VHDL Synthesis Package-Floating Point ( fphdl )

* IEEE 1076. 4 Timing ( VHDL Initiative Towards ASIC Libraries: vital )

* IEEE 1076. 6 VHDL Synthesis Interoperability

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* VHDL ( IEEE 1076 ),

* VHDL or IEEE 1076

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) defines a learning object as " any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training ".

The IEEE's Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge-2004 Version, or SWEBOK, defines the field and describes the knowledge the IEEE expects a practicing software engineer to have.

The IEEE POSIX P1003. 2 standard defines the functionality and requirements for both Lex and Yacc.

IEEE Std 802. 3, which defines all Ethernet variants, for historical reasons still bears the title " Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection ( CSMA / CD ) access method and physical layer specifications ".

The IEEE Glossary defines interoperability as: the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged.

The IEEE defines phase noise as where the " phase instability " S < sub > φ </ sub >( f ) is the one-sided spectral density of a signal's phase deviation.

The IEEE 802. 3an standard defines the wire-level modulation for 10GBASE-T as a Tomlinson-Harashima Precoded ( THP ) version of pulse-amplitude modulation with 16 discrete levels ( PAM-16 ), encoded in a two-dimensional checkerboard pattern known as DSQ128.

IEEE 802. 3ab, ratified in 1999, defines gigabit Ethernet transmission over unshielded twisted pair ( UTP ) category 5, 5e, or 6 cabling and became known as 1000BASE-T. With the ratification of 802. 3ab, gigabit Ethernet became a desktop technology as organizations could use their existing copper cabling infrastructure.

IEEE 802. 3ab, which defines the widely used 1000BASE-T interface type, uses a different encoding scheme in order to keep the symbol rate as low as possible, allowing transmission over twisted pair.

* IEEE 802. 11e is an approved amendment to the IEEE 802. 11 standard that defines a set of quality-of-service enhancements for wireless LAN applications through modifications to the Media Access Control ( MAC ) layer.

* IEEE 802. 1p defines 8 different classes of service ( including one dedicated to voice ) for traffic on layer-2 wired Ethernet.

The IEEE 1284 standard defines the bi-directional version of the port, which allows the transmission and reception of data bits at the same time.

The IEEE 1295 standard ( now withdrawn ) defines the Motif API.

IEEE 802. 11e-2005 or 802. 11e is an approved amendment to the IEEE 802. 11 standard that defines a set of Quality of Service enhancements for wireless LAN applications through modifications to the Media Access Control ( MAC ) layer.

IEEE 802. 1X defines the encapsulation of the Extensible Authentication Protocol ( EAP ) over IEEE 802 which is known as " EAP over LAN " or EAPOL.

The IEEE 802. 11 standard also defines an optional access method using a Point Coordination Function ( PCF ).

XENPAK is a Multisource Agreement ( MSA ), instigated by Agilent Technologies and Agere Systems, that defines a fiber-optic or wired transceiver module which conforms to the 10 Gigabit Ethernet ( 10GbE ) standard of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) 802. 3 working group.

IEEE 754 defines the precision, p, to be the number of digits in the significand, including any implicit leading bit ( e. g. precision, p, of double precision format is 53 ).

The IEEE 1164 standard defines a package design unit that contains declarations that support a uniform representation of a logic value in a VHDL hardware description.