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NITX-315/NITX-315-ET Installation and Use (6806800L71D)
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HDD
Hard Disk Drive
I2C
Inter Integrated Circuit - 2 wire (clock and data) signaling scheme
allowing communication between integrated circuits, primarily used
to read and load registers values.
IDE
Integrated Device Electronics - parallel interface for hard disk drives -
also known as PATA
JTAG
Joint Test Action Group
LPC
Low Pin-Count Interface: a low speed interface used for peripheral
circuits such as Super I/O controllers, which typically combine
legacy-device support into a single IC.
LVDS
Low Voltage Differential Signaling - widely used as a physical
interface for TFT flat panels. LVDS can be used for many high-speed
signaling applications. In this document, it refers only to TFT flat-
panel applications.
PCI
Peripheral Component Interface
PCI-E
Peripheral Component Interface Express - next-generation high
speed Serialized I/O bus
PHY
Ethernet controller physical layer device
Pin-out Type
A reference to one of five COM ExpressTM definitions for what signals
appear on the COM ExpressTM module connector pins.
SDD
Subsystem Device Driver
SPD
Serial Presence Detect - refers to serial EEPROM on DRAMs that has
DRAM module configuration information
SATA
Serial AT Attachment: serial-interface standard for hard disks
SDVO
Serialized Digital Video Output - Intel defined format for digital video
output that can
SSD
Solid State Drive
USB
Universal Serial Bus
VGA
Video Graphics Adapter
WDT
Watch Dog Timer.
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