Introduction
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Term | Description  | 
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GART | Graphics Aperture   | 
  | during AGP aperture address translations.  | 
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GTLB | Graphics Translation   | 
  | entries.  | 
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DBI  | Dynamic Bus inversion.  | 
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MSI | Message Signaled Interrupts. MSIs allow a device to request interrupt service via a  | 
  | standard memory write transaction instead of through a hardware signal.  | 
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IPI  | Inter Processor Interrupt.  | 
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SDR  | Single   | 
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Table 2. Data Type Notation
Data Type | Size | 
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bit (b)  | Smallest unit, 0 or 1  | 
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byte  | 8 bits  | 
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word  | 16 bits = 2 bytes  | 
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DWord (DW)  | Doubleword: 32 bits = 4 bytes  | 
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QWord (QW)  | Quadword: 8 bytes = 4 words  | 
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DQWord (DQW)  | Double Quadword. 16 bytes or 8 words. This is sometimes  | 
  | referred to as a Superword (SW or SWord), and is also  | 
  | referred to as a “Cache Line”.  | 
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Kilobyte (KB)  | 1024 bytes  | 
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Megabit (Mb)  | 1, 048,576 bits = 128 KB  | 
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Megabyte (MB)  | 1,048,576 bytes = 1024 KB  | 
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Gigabit (Gb)  | 1024 Mb  | 
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Gigabyte (GB)  | 1024 MB  | 
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Table 3. Number Format Notation
Number Format | Notation | Example | 
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Decimal (default)  | 
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Binary  | b  | 1110b  | 
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Hex  | h  | 0Eh  | 
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12  | Intel® 82845 MCH for SDR Datasheet |