Integrated Development Environment. A programming environment that has been packaged as an application program, typically consisting of a code editor, a compiler, a debugger, and a graphical user interface (GUI) builder. The IDE may be a standalone application or may be included as part of one or more existing and compatible applications.

Intelligent rive lectronics. IDE is the protocol that most PC disk drives use to communicate with the processor.

IDE hard disk drive interface

Modern program development environments provide programs that allow the programmer to edit source code, compile it, and even execute it within the control of these programs called IDEs. Click for more information.