Information about standards

Index

• Information about standards and de-facto standards
• Standard FAQs
• Standardization organizations
• Standards information web pages

Standardization organizations

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• DIN
• ECMA - standardization of information and communication systems
• Electronic Industries Association (EIA)
• Entertainment Services & Technology Association
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) - a non-profit organization whose mission is to determine and produce the telecommunications standards
• European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
• European Electronics Chips and Systems Design Initiative (ECSI)
• European Radiocommunications Office (ERO)
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
• Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Infrared Data Association (IrDA)
• Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) - international trade association dedicated to promoting use of writable optical technology for storing computer data and images
• Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE)
• The Open Group
• USITT - performing arts and entertainment industry technology
• Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA)

Organization lists

• Technical Standards Bodies - list by Test & Measurement World magazine

Standards information web pages

• Hypertext FCC Rules Project - FCC rules documents on-line

Standard FAQs

• International Power Components Standards
• Military Specifications

Information about standards and de-facto standards

• ASN.1
• ATSC Standards - digital television standards for USA
• CCITT/ISO multimedia standards - large list of standard with basic information of them
• CCITT Modem Recommendations - standard onm V. and X. series listed
• CEBus standard - home automation network
• CompactPCI - A New Industrial Computer Bus Standard
• Compliance Engineering - magazine web site with lots of information on EMC, ESD, safety, telecommunications, ISO 9000
• Controller Area Network (CAN)
• RS-422/485 Application Note - contains lots of information
• European Installation Bus (EIB)
• Gerber RS-274X Format - Gerber data is a simple, generic means of transferring printed circuit board information to a wide variety of devices that convert electronics PCB data to atwork produced by photoplotter. Virtually every PCB CAD system generates Gerber data because all photoplotters read it. This book is in pdf format.
• HART - process automation field communications protocol
• I2C - inter-component serial bus for controlling
• IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control (LLC)
• IEEE 803.3 Ethernet
• IEEE 802.4 / Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP)
• IEEE 802.5 Token Ring
• IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN
• IEEE 802.11 page by Breezecom - wireless LAN
• IEEE 1149.1 - JTAG Boundary Scan for digital electronics testing
• Introduction to the IEEE 1284-1994 parallel port standard
• Radio Data System (RDS)
• RS-232
• RS-422/485 Application Note - contains lots of information
• Signaling System 7 (SS7) Tutorial
• Specification and Description Language (SDL) - an object-oriented, formal language defined by The International Telecommunications UnionTelecommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-T)
• STD 32 bus specification
• Tree and Tabular Combined Notation (TTCN) Tutorial - a notation standardized by the ISO for the specification of tests for communication systems
• Unicode - a 16-bit international character code for information processing
• Universal Serial Bus (USB)
• VESA standards - PC video standards
• VME Bus - check also comp.arch.bus.vmebus FAQ

Companies which sell standard papers

• British Standards Institution
• Global Engineering Documents - with a good standards search engine
• SFS - place to get SFS and EN standards in Finland