IDE

1. Integrated Drive Electronics
2. Integrated/Interactive Development Evironment

See also: Computers | Communication | Standard

1. Integrated Drive Electronics

Acronym: Integrated Drive Electronics

“A standard electronic interface used between a computer motherboard‘s data paths or bus and the computer’s disk storage devices.” (source (http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5-gci214013,00.html))

The original standard had a transfer rate of 2.5 megabytes per second, but newer Ultra IDE connects at speeds varying from 33 MBps (UDMA3) till 133 MBps (UDMA6).

Related

• SCSI
• Firewire
• USB
• DMA

2a. Integrated Development Environment2b. Interactive Development Environment

An IDE is a system for supporting the process of writing software. Such a system may include a syntax-directed editor, graphical tools for program entry, and integrated support for compiling and running the program and relating compilation errors back to the source.

Related

• Programming
• Programming Languages
• Program

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