Computer Accessories User Manual

PENT/ATCA−717 13
Notation Description
Dangerous situation: injuries to people or severe damage to
Dangerous
situation:
injuries
to
people
or
severe
damage
to
objects possible
Abbreviations
Abbreviationa Descriptiona
A
AC
A
Alternating Current
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API Application Programming Interface
APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt
Controller
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATCA Advanced Telecommunications Computing
Architecture
B
BIOS
B
Basic Input/Output System
BMC Base Board Management Controller
C
CMC
C
Common Mezzanine Card
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU Central Processing Unit
D
DDR
D
Double Data Rate
DMA Direct Memory Access
DPLL Digital Phase Locked Loop
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
E
ECC
E
Error−Correction Code
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility
EN European Norm
ESCD Extended System Configuration Data
ESD Electrostatic Sensitive Device
F
FAE
F
Field Application Engineers