Motorola MVME2400 manual UltraViolet

G L O S S A R Y

	Glossary
UV	UltraViolet
UVGA	Ultra Video Graphics Array. An improved VGA monitor standard
	that provides at least 256 simultaneous colors and a screen
	resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI)
	The time it takes the beam to fly back to the top of the screen in order
	to retrace the opposite field (odd or even). VBI is in the order of 20
	TV lines. Teletext information is transmitted over 4 of these lines
	(lines 14-17).
VESA (bus)	Video Electronics Standards Association (or VL bus). An internal
	interconnect standard for transferring video information to a
	computer display system.
VGA	Video Graphics Array (IBM). The third and most common monitor
	standard used today. It provides up to 256 simultaneous colors and
	a screen resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.
virtual address	A binary address issued by a CPU that indirectly refers to the
	location of information in primary memory, such as main memory.
	When data is copied from disk to main memory, the physical address
	is changed to the virtual address.
VL bus	See VESA Local bus (VL bus).
VMEchip2	MCG second generation VMEbus interface ASIC (Motorola)
VME2PCI	MCG ASIC that interfaces between the PCI bus and the VMEchip2
	device.
volatile memory	A memory in which the data content is lost when the power supply
	is disconnected.
VRAM	Video (Dynamic) Random Access Memory. Memory chips with
	two ports, one used for random accesses and the other capable of
	serial accesses. Once the serial port has been initialized (with a
	transfer cycle), it can operate independently of the random port. This
	frees the random port for CPU accesses. The result of adding the
	serial port is a significantly reduced amount of interference from
	screen refresh. VRAMs cost more per bit than DRAMs.
Windows NT™	The trademark representing Windows New Technology, a
	computer operating system developed by the Microsoft Corporation.

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