Symbol Technologies VC5090 - Manual (Page 196)

Glossary - 2 VC5090 Vehicle Computer Product Reference Guide
D
Data Communications Equipment (DCE).
A device (such as a modem) which is designed to attach directly to a DTE
(Data Vehicle Computer Equipment) device.
DCE.
See Data Communications Equipment.
DCP.
See Device Configuration Package.
Device Configuration Package.
The Symbol Device Configuration Package provides the Product Reference Guide
(PRG), flash partitions, Vehicle Computer Configuration Manager (TCM) and the associated TCM scripts. With this
package hex images that represent flash partitions can be created and downloaded to the vehicle computer.
DRAM.
Dynamic random access memory.
DTE.
See Data Vehicle Computer Equipment.
E
ENQ (RS-232).
ENQ software handshaking is also supported for the data sent to the host.
ESD.
Electro-Static Discharge
F
Flash Disk.
An additional megabyte of non-volatile memory for storing application and configuration files.
Flash Memory.
Flash memory is nonvolatile, semi-permanent storage that can be electronically erased in the circuit
and reprogrammed. The vehicle computers use Flash memory to store the operating system, the vehicle computer
emulators, and the Citrix ICA Client.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
A TCP/IP application protocol governing file transfer via network or telephone lines. See
TCP/IP.
FTP.
See File Transfer Protocol.
Flash Memory.
Flash memory is responsible for storing the system firmware and is non-volatile. If the system power is
interrupted the data is not be lost.
H
Hard Reset.
See Cold Boot.