Installation guide

G-4 PCI-SB StarFabric PCI Interface Card Installation Guide
Carrier Card
Refers to a non-intelligent, slave module that interfaces 3U or 6U analog,
digital, or serial I.O cards to a CompactPCI computer system to preserve
space slots and lower system costs
Category-5
Category-5 or CAT5 describes network cabling standard for data throughput
that consists of four twisted pairs of copper wire terminated by RJ-45 con-
nectors. CAT5 is based on the EIA/TIA 568 Commercial Building Telecom-
munications Wiring Standard developed by the Electronics Industries
Association requested by the Computer Communications Industry Associa-
tion in 1985.
Chipset
A term that describes the architecture of an integrated circuit used to provide
the processing power for a computer board.
CRC
Acronym for Cyclic Redundancy Check. This is an error detection code that
is recorded within each sector or leg of a data transmission and is used to see
whether parts of a string of data are missing or erroneous.
Daisy-Chain
A hardware configuration in which devices are connected together, one after
the other in a series. For example, StarFabric-enabled devices can be daisy-
chained together by connecting the STP cables from one device to another to
create a chain of devices.
Discovery
Refers to the StarProtocol’s process of identifying StarFabric-enabled
devices connected to the Switch Fabric.