unconditional jumps , 277
unidirectional parallel communications, 349
uninitialized storage (BSS) section, 319
union, 147, 185
aliases, 188
on big endian machine, 148
C/C++ declarations, 186
data type, discriminant, 147
discriminant, 185
field offsets in a union, 185
HLA declarations, 187
on little endian machine, 148
memory storage, 187
object disassembly, 189
other uses, 188
in Pascal/Delphi/Kylix, 186
versus a record (struct), 148
unique Boolean functions, 195
universal Boolean function (NAND), 213
Universal Serial Bus. See USB
unstable flip-flop operation, 221
up codes on the keyboard, 348
uppercase characters , 105
USB (Universal Serial Bus), 146, 351, 390
audio, 395
bandwidth, 394
client drivers, 395
communications devices, 396
control transmissions, 393
design, 390
device classes, 396
device drivers, 395
enumeration, 395
flash modules, 364
host controller stack, 391
interrupt transfers, 394
isochronous transfers, 395
performance, 392
polling operation on, 394
printer devices, 396
protocol, frames in, 392
round- robin polling on, 392
starvation on, 393
storage devices, 396
transmission types, 393
U.S. Social Security numbers, 60