big endian

The normal order of bytes in a computer word. See byte order.

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For example, [f.sub.c] is an inverse function for the PNG specification because the checksum field is stored in big endian format in a PNG file, but it should be reversed to the little endian format in the memory before the comparison.

CAFA: A Checksum-Aware Fuzzing Assistant Tool for Coverage Improvement

IBM System p based on Power8 processors providing execution environments with PowerVM: Big Endian with PowerVM: Tuleta BE model number - Power 835 model 8286-41A; Little Endian with Red Hat Virtualization for Power 3.6: Power 835 model 8284-22A; IBM System z based on z/Architecture processors: zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12); zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12); zEnterprise 196 (z196); zEnterprise 114 (z114); Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 was certified by BSI, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security.

United States : Red Hat Adds Common Criteria Security Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

SBAdmin continues to support Linux on Power distributions running on big endian (BE) processors, and now provides the same protection for the following Linux on Power distributions running on little endian processors: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (RHEL 7.1), Ubuntu 14.04, and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES 12).

STORIX SBADMIN SUPPORTS LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS

“Oscilloscope and Power Spectral applications include options for displaying all signaling formats - a-law, [micro]-law, PCM 16 bit, PCM 13 bit, PCM 14 bit, PCM 8 bit and different byte order for INTEL (Little Endian) and MOTOROLA (Big Endian) 16 bit signals sampled at 16 KHz can also be displayed.”

GL Announces G.722 Wideband Audio Codec Support Across TDM and VoIP Platforms

In the Big Endian corner, the froth on top of a glass of beer is very important, almost as important as the quality of the liquid itself.

North-South debate has yet to come to a head

Binary numerics and multi-byte character data from "big endian" computers do not process correctly on "little endian" computers, and vice versa, due to the byte ordering differences imposed by CPU architectures.

IRI SOFTWARE SOVES "ENDIAN" PROBLEM

The company's Bluetooth baseband (BOOST Core) and software (BOOST Software) can be used with any 16-bit or 32-bit processor, using little endian or big endian convention.

Wipro-NewLogic introduces Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

And, the byte order could be swapped to suit Big Endian computers.

Identifying frame grabber core competencies: do you know where your frame grabber functionality is located?

For instance, RISC-based processors are big endian, while some Intel designs are little endian.

IBM Says it Has Endian Solution for Monterey

Big Endian: (Pronounced "big Indian") Numeric storage format in which the most significant byte is first

AVOID DISASTER: USE FIREWALLS FOR INTER-INTRANET SECURITY

The Motorola 68000 also uses a "big endian" scheme, but numbers bits in the opposite order from bytes and words.

The Clipper (TM) Processor: instruction set architectures and implementation

LSI Corporation today announced its Axxia multicore family of network communication processors and accelerators now include big endian BE8 mode support for the latest version of Wind River Linux.

United States : LSI and Wind River Announce Big Endian Support for Axxia Multicore ARM Processor Family