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IEI Integration SPCIE-C2060 v2.12 User Manual

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LVDS

Low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) is a dual-wire, high-speed

differential electrical signaling system commonly used to connect LCD

displays to a computer.

POST

The Power-on Self Test (POST) is the pre-boot actions the system

performs when the system is turned-on.

RAM

Random Access Memory (RAM) is volatile memory that loses data when

power is lost. RAM has very fast data transfer rates compared to other

storage like hard drives.

SATA

Serial ATA (SATA) is a serial communications bus designed for data

transfers between storage devices and the computer chipsets. The SATA

bus has transfer speeds up to 1.5 Gbps and the SATA II bus has data

transfer speeds of up to 3.0 Gbps.

S.M.A.R.T

Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) refers to

automatic status checking technology implemented on hard disk drives.

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver-transmitter (UART) is responsible for

asynchronous communications on the system and manages the system’s

serial communication (COM) ports.

UHCI

The Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) specification is a

register-level interface description for USB 1.1 Host Controllers.

USB

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an external bus standard for

interfacing devices. USB 1.1 supports 12Mbps data transfer rates and

USB 2.0 supports 480Mbps data transfer rates.

VGA

The Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a graphics display system developed

by IBM.