- All About Hardware
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Household hardware (or
simply, hardware) is equipment that can be touched or
held by hand such
as keys, locks, nuts, screws, washers, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, belts, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts. [1] Household
hardware is typically sold in hardware stores.[2]
Builders' hardware or
just builders hardware is a group
of metal hardware specifically used for protection,
decoration, and convenience in buildings.[1] Building
products do not make any part of a building, rather they
support them and make them work.[2] It usually supports
fixtures like windows, doors, and cabinets. Common
examples include door handles, door
hinges, deadbolts, latches, numerals, letter plates,
switch plates, and door knockers.
Electronic hardware consist of
interconnected electronic components which perform
analog, or logic operations on received and locally
stored information to produce as output, or store
resulting new information or to provide control for
output actuator mechanisms. Electronic hardware can
range from individual chips/circuits, to distributed
information-processing systems. Well-designed electronic
hardware is composed of hierarchies of functional
modules which inter-communicate via precisely defined
interfaces.[1] Hardware logic is primarily a
differentiation of the data processing circuitry from
other more generalized circuitry. For example nearly all
computers include a power supply which consists of
circuitry not involved in data processing but rather
powering the data processing circuits. Similarly, a
computer may output information to a computer monitor or
audio amplifier which is also not involved in the
computational processes.
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