Glossary SE7221BK1-E Technical Product Specification

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Glossary

This appendix contains important terms used in the preceding chapters. For ease of use,

numeric entries are listed first (e.g., “82460GX”) with alpha entries following (e.g., “AGP 4x”).

Acronyms are then entered in their respective place, with non-acronyms following.

Term Definition
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AP Application Processor
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASR Asynchronous Reset
BGA Ball-grid Array
BIOS Basic input/output system
Byte 8-bit quantity.
CMOS In terms of this specification, this describes the PC-AT compatible region of battery-backed 128
bytes of memory, which normally resides on the server board.
DCD Data Carrier Detect
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMTF Distributed Management Task Force
ECC Error Correcting Code
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility
EPS External Product Specification
ESCD Extended System Configuration Data
FDC Floppy Disk Controller
FIFO First-In, First-Out
FRU Field replaceable unit
GB 1024 MB.
GPIO General purpose I/O
GUID Globally Unique ID
Hz Hertz (1 cycle/second)
HDG Hardware Design Guide
I2C Inter-integrated circuit bus
IA Intel® architecture
ICMB Intelligent Chassis Management Bus
IERR Internal error
IMB Inter Module Bus
IP Internet Protocol
IRQ Interrupt Request
ITP In-target probe
KB 1024 bytes
KCS Keyboard Controller Style
LAN Local area network
LBA Logical Block Address
LCD Liquid crystal display