Motorola MVME2400 - Manual (Page 157)

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CD-ROM Compact Disk Read-Only Memory
CFM Cubic Feet per Minute
CHRP See Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP).
CHRP-compliant See Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP).
CHRP Spec See Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP).
CISC Complex-Instruction-Set Computer. A computer whose processor
is designed to sequentially run variable-length instructions, many of
which require several clock cycles, that perform complex tasks and
thereby simplify programming.
CODEC COder/DECoder
Color Difference (CD) The signals of (R-Y) and (B-Y) without the luminance (-Y) signal.
The Green signals (G-Y) can be extracted by these two signals.
Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)
A specification published by Apple, IBM, and Motorola which
defines the devices, interfaces, and data formats that make up a
CHRP-compliant system using a PowerPC processor.
Composite Video Signal (CVS/CVBS)
Signal that carries video picture information for color, brightness
and synchronizing signals for both horizontal and vertical scans.
Sometimes referred to as “Baseband Video”.
cpi characters per inch
cpl characters per line
CPU Central Processing Unit. The master computer unit in a system.
DCE Data Circuit-terminating Equipment.
DLL Dynamic Link Library. A set of functions that are linked to the
referencing program at the time it is loaded into memory.
DMA Direct Memory Access. A method by which a device may read or
write to memory directly without processor intervention. DMA is
typically used by block I/O devices.
DOS Disk Operating System
dpi dots per inch