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PHB

PCI Host Bridge

physical address

A binary address that refers to the actual location of information

 

stored in secondary storage.

PIB

PCI-to-ISA Bridge

PMC

PCI Mezzanine Card

POWER

Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC architecture (IBM)

PowerPC™

The trademark used to describe the Performance Optimized With

 

Enhanced RISC microprocessor architecture for Personal

 

Computers developed by the IBM Corporation. PowerPC is

 

superscalar, which means it can handle more than one instruction per

 

clock cycle. Instructions can be sent simultaneously to three types of

 

independent execution units (branch units, fixed-point units, and

 

floating-point units), where they can execute concurrently, but finish

 

out of order. PowerPC is used by Motorola, Inc. under license from

 

IBM.

RAM

Random-Access Memory. The temporary memory that a computer

 

uses to hold the instructions and data currently being worked with.

 

All data in RAM is lost when the computer is turned off.

RAS

Row Address Strobe. A clock signal used in dynamic RAMs to

 

control the input of the row addresses.

Raven

The PowerPC-to-PCI local bus bridge chip developed by Motorola

 

for the MVME2600 and MVME3600 series of boards. It provides

 

the necessary interface between the PowerPC 60x bus and the PCI

 

bus, and acts as interrupt controller.

Reduced-Instruction-Set Computer (RISC)

 

A computer in which the processor’s instruction set is limited to

 

constant-length instructions that can usually be executed in a single

 

clock cycle.

RFI

Radio Frequency Interference

ROM

Read-Only Memory

RTC

Real-Time Clock

SBC

Single Board Computer

G L O S S A R Y

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