Intel NetStructure® MPCBL0001 High Performance Single Board Computer

Contents

IDE

Integrated Device Electronics. Common, low-cost disk interface.

IPMB

Intelligent Platform Management Bus. Physical 2-wire medium to carry

 

IPMI.

IPMC

Intelligent Platform Management Controller. ASIC in baseboard

 

responsible for low-level system management.

IPMI

Intelligent Platform Management Interface. Programming model for

 

system management.

KCS

Keyboard Controller Style interface.

LPC Bus

Los Pin Count Bus. Legacy I/O bus that replaces ISA and X-bus. See the

 

Low Pin Count (LPC) Interface Specification.

MTBF

Mean Time Between Failure. A reliability measure based on the

 

probability of failure.

NEBS

National Equipment Building Standards. Telco standards for equipment

 

emissions, thermal, shock, contaminants, and fire suppression

 

requirements.

NMI

Non-Maskable Interrupt. Low-level PC interrupt.

Node Board

A board capable of providing and/or receiving packet data to/from a

 

Fabric Board via the ports of the networks. The term is used

 

interchangeably with SBC.

MPCBL0001

Single or dual processor Single Board Computer with Fibre Channel*.

MPCBL0002

Single or dual processor Single Board Computer without Fibre Channel.

Node Slot

A slot supporting port connections to/from Fabric Slot(s). A Node slot is

 

intended to accept a Node Board

Physical Port

A port that physically exists. It is supported by one of many physical

 

(PHY) type components.

PMC

PCI Mezzanine Card. IEEE1386 standard for embedded PCI cards. They

 

mount parallel to the SBC.

ROM

Read-Only Memory.

SBC

Single Board Computer. This term is used interchangeably with Node

 

Board.

SEL

System Event Log. Action logged by management controller.

SFP

Small Form Factor Pluggable receptacle for the front panel Fibre

 

Channel interfaces.

SMBus

System Management Bus. Similar to I2C

SMI

System Management Interrupt. Low-level PC interrupt which can be

 

initiated by chipset or management controller. Used to service IPMC or

 

handle things like memory errors.

SMS, SMSC

Standard Microsystems Corporation*

USB

Universal Serial Bus. General-purpose peripheral interconnect,

 

operating at 1-12 Mbps.

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