WinChipThe WinChip series was a low-power Socket 7-based x86 processor designed by Centaur Technology and marketed by its parent company IDT. The design of the WinChip was quite different from other processors of the time. Instead of a large gate count and die area, IDT, using its experience from the RISC processor market, created a small and electrically efficient processor similar to the 80486, because of its single pipeline and in-order execution microarchitecture.
Network Time ProtocolNetwork Time Protocol (« protocole de temps réseau ») ou NTP est un protocole qui permet de synchroniser, via un réseau informatique, l'horloge locale d'ordinateurs sur une référence d'heure. La première version v. 0 de NTP, formalisée dans la RFC 958, date de . Dès le début, ce protocole fut conçu pour offrir une précision de synchronisation meilleure que la seconde. Par rapport au service « Time Protocol » qui offre un service d'heure sans proposer une infrastructure, le projet NTP propose une solution globale et universelle de synchronisation qui est utilisable dans le monde entier.
Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstructionIn ultrafast optics, spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER) is an ultrashort pulse measurement technique originally developed by Chris Iaconis and Ian Walmsley. SPIDER is an interferometric ultrashort pulse measurement technique in the frequency domain based on spectral shearing interferometry. Spectral shearing interferometry is similar in concept to lateral shearing interferometry, except the shearing is performed in the frequency domain.
Optical mouseAn optical mouse is a computer mouse which uses a light source, typically a light-emitting diode (LED), and a light detector, such as an array of photodiodes, to detect movement relative to a surface. Variations of the optical mouse have largely replaced the older mechanical mouse design, which uses moving parts to sense motion. The earliest optical mice detected movement on pre-printed mousepad surfaces.