System information

A Abbreviations
ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
AHB AMBA High Speed Bus
ALICE A Large Ion Collider Experiment
AMBA Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATLAS A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
BAR Base Address Register
BCV Boot Connection Vector
BEV Bootstrap Entry Vector
BIST Built-in Self Test
BMC Baseboard Management Controller
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CHARM Computer Health and Remote Management
CHN CHARM-Host Network
CMS Compact Muon Solenoid
CIA Cluster Interface Agent, the predecessor of the CHARM
CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
COTS Commodity off-the-shelf
CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device
CPU Central Processing Unit
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMI Desktop Management Interface
DPRAM Dual Port RAM
DRAM Dynamic RAM
EBI Expansion Bus Interface
FEP Front End Processor
FIFO First-In First-Out Memory
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
HPI Host Port Interface
IP Internet Protocol
IPL Initial Program Load
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
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