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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