Kontron AT8060 - Manual (Page 154)

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F. Glossary
Acronyms Descriptions
AC Alternate Current
ACPI Advanced Configuration & Power Interface
AdvancedMC (Same as AMC). Advanced Mezzanine Card.
AHCI Advanced Host Controller Interface
AMC (Same as AdvancedMC). Advanced Mezzanine Card.
AMC.0 Advanced Mezzanine Card Base Specification.
AMC.1
PCI Express and Advanced Switching on AdvancedMC. A subsidiary specification to the Advanced Mezzanine
Card Base Specification (AMC.0).
AMC.2
Ethernet Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification. A subsidiary specification to the Advanced Mezzanine
Card Base Specification (AMC.0).
AMC.3
Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification for Storage. A subsidiary specification to the Advanced Mezzanine
Card Base Specification (AMC.0).
AMI American Megatrends Inc
ANSI American National Standards Institute
APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
ARI
Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation. Next generation I/O implementations to support an increased
number of concurrent users of a multi-Function device
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII codes represent text in computers,
communications equipment, and other devices that work with text.
ASPM
Active State Power Management. A power management protocol used to manage PCI Express-based serial
link devices.
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATCA Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture
ATS
Address Translation Services. Set of transactions for PCI Express components to exchange and use
translated addresses in support of native I/O Virtualization.
BBS BIOS Boot Specification
BI Base Interface. Backplane connectivity defined by the ATCA.
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BMC Base Management Controller
BOM Bill Of Material
BT Block Transfer. An optional IPMI system management interface.
BW BandWidth
CB Certification Body
CD Compact Disk
CDROM (Same as CD-ROM). Compact Disk Read-Only Memory.
CE Conformit?Europ?nne. European Conformity.
CFM Cubic Foot per Minute
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CH CHannel
CLK CLocK. Acronym often used in signal name.
CLK1 AdvancedTCA bused resource Synch clock group 1