G L O S S A R Y

 

Glossary

SCSA

Signal Computing System Architecture. A hardware model for

 

computer telephony servers. A key SCSA element is a TDM (time

 

division multiplexed) telephony bus for voice and video signals,

 

known as the SCbus™ in VME implementations of this architecture.

SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface. An industry-standard high-

 

speed interface primarily used for secondary storage. SCSI-1

 

provides up to 5 Mbps data transfer.

SCSI-2 (Fast/Wide)

An improvement over plain SCSI; and includes command queuing.

 

Fast SCSI provides 10 Mbps data transfer on an 8-bit bus. Wide

 

SCSI provides up to 40 Mbps data transfer on a 16- or 32-bit bus.

serial port

A connector that can exchange data with an I/O device one bit at a

 

time. It may operate synchronously or asynchronously, and may

 

include start bits, stop bits, and/or parity.

SIM

Serial Interface Module

SIMM

Single Inline Memory Module. A small circuit board with RAM

 

chips (normally surface mounted) on it designed to fit into a standard

 

slot.

SIO

Super I/O controller

SMT

Surface Mount Technology. A method of mounting devices (such as

 

integrated circuits, resistors, capacitors, and others) on a printed

 

circuit board, characterized by not requiring mounting holes. Rather,

 

the devices are soldered to pads on the printed circuit board.

 

Surface-mount devices are typically smaller than the equivalent

 

through-hole devices.

software

A computing system is normally spoken of as having two major

 

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

 

describe any single program or group of programs, languages,

 

operating procedures, and documentation of a computer system.

 

Software is the real interface between the user and the computer.

SRAM

Static Random Access Memory

TDM

Time Division Multiplexing. A multiplexing scheme in which

 

individual I/O ports or channels share slices of time on an aggregate

 

channel, Receivers and transmitters are synchronized. The SCbus™

 

is a TDM implementation that provides up to 2048 time slots, the

 

equivalent of 1024 voice conversations at 64 Kbps.

thick Ethernet

See 10base-5.

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