EIDE

Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics. An improved version of

 

IDE, with faster data rates, 32-bit transactions, and DMA. Also

 

known as Fast ATA-2.

EISA (bus)

Extended Industry Standard Architecture (bus) (IBM). An

 

architectural system using a 32-bit bus that allows data to be

 

transferred between peripherals in 32-bit chunks instead of 16-bit or

 

8-bit that most systems use. With the transfer of larger bits of

 

information, the machine is able to perform much faster than the

 

standard ISA bus system.

EPROM

Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory. A memory storage

 

device that can be written once (per erasure cycle) and read many

 

times.

ESD

Electro-Static Discharge/Damage

Ethernet

A local area network standard that uses radio frequency signals

 

carried by coaxial cables.

Falcon

The DRAM controller chip developed by Motorola for the

 

MVME2600 and MVME3600 series of boards. It is intended to be

 

used in sets of two to provide the necessary interface between the

 

Power PC60x bus and the 144-bit ECC DRAM (system memory

 

array) and/or ROM/Flash.

fast Ethernet

See 100Base-TX.

FDDI

Fiber Distributed Data Interface. A network based on the use of

 

optical-fiber cable to transmit data in non-return-to-zero, invert-on-

 

1s (NRZI) format at speeds up to 100 Mbps.

firmware

The program or specific software instructions that have been more

 

or less permanently burned into an electronic component, such as a

 

ROM (read-only memory) or an EPROM (erasable programmable

 

read-only memory).

hardware

A computing system is normally spoken of as having two major

 

components: hardware and software. Hardware is the term used to

 

describe any of the physical embodiments of a computer system,

 

with emphasis on the electronic circuits (the computer) and

 

electromechanical devices (peripherals) that make up the system.

IDE

Integrated Drive Electronics. A disk drive interface standard. Also

 

known as ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment).

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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