Kontron AT8242 - Manual (Page 109)

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PHY
PHYsical layer. Generic electronics term referring to a special electronic integrated circuit or
functional block of a circuit that takes care of encoding and decoding between a pure digital domain
(on-off) and a modulation in the analog domain.
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POST Power-On Self-Test
RAM Random Access Memory
RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RoHS Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances
RS-232 (Same as RS232). Recommended Standard 232.
RS232 (Same as RS-232). Recommended Standard 232.
RTC Real Time Clock
RTM Rear Transition Module
RTM-Link Rear Transition Module Link. Kontron 3-wire protocol.
RTS Request To Send
SEL System Event Log
SFP Small Form-factor Pluggable
ShMC Shelf Management Controller
SMB (Same as SMBus/SMBUS). System Management Bus.
SMBUS (Same as SMB/SMBus). System Management Bus.
SMBus (Same as SMB/SMBUS). System Management Bus.
SOL Serial Over LAN
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
SSE2 Streaming SIMD Extension 2. SIMD is "Single Instruction, Multiple Data".
SSE3 Streaming SIMD Extension 3. SIMD is "Single Instruction, Multiple Data".
SSH
Secure SHell. A network protocol that allows data to be exchanged over a secure channel between
two computers.
TCLKA Telecom CLocK A. AMC Clock Interface.
TCLKB Telecom CLocK B. AMC Clock Interface.
TCLKC Telecom CLocK C. AMC Clock Interface.
TCLKD Telecom CLocK D. AMC Clock Interface.
TX Transmit
TXD Transmit
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
USB Universal Serial Bus
VCC Power supply
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
XAUI
X (meaning ten) Attachment Unit Interface. A standard for connecting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE)
ports.
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