Kontron AM4521 - Manual (Page 29)

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C. Glossary
Acronyms Descriptions
AdvancedMC (Same as AMC). Advanced Mezzanine Card.
AMC (Same as AdvancedMC). Advanced Mezzanine Card.
AMC.0 Advanced Mezzanine Card Base Specification.
AMC.1
PCI Express and Advanced Switching on AdvancedMC. A subsidiary specification to the Advanced
Mezzanine Card Base Specification (AMC.0).
AMC.2
Ethernet Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification. A subsidiary specification to the Advanced
Mezzanine Card Base Specification (AMC.0).
AMC.3
Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification for Storage. A subsidiary specification to the Advanced
Mezzanine Card Base Specification (AMC.0).
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATCA Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
FRU
Field Replaceable Unit. Any entity that can be replaced by a user in the field. Not all FRUs are hot
swappable.
FW FirmWare
Gb Gigabit
GB (Same as GByte) GigaByte.
GByte (Same as GB) GigaByte.
GND GrouND
HDD Hard Disc Drive
HPM PICMG Hardware Platform Management specification family
HPM.1 Hardware Platform Management IPM Controller Firmware Upgrade Specification
HW HardWare
I2C Inter Integrated Circuit bus
IPM Intelligent Platform Management
IPMB Intelligent Platform Management Bus
IPMB-0 Intelligent Platform Management Bus Channel 0, the logical aggregation of IPMB-A and IPMB-B.
IPMB-A Intelligent Platform Management Bus A
IPMB-B Intelligent Platform Management Bus B
IPMB-L Intelligent Platform Management Bus Local
IPMC Intelligent Platform Management Controller
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
OOS Out Of Service
OS Operating System
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI-32 Peripheral Component Interconnect 32 bits
PCI® Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCIe (Same as PCI-E). PCI-Express. Next generation I/O standard
PCI-E (Same as PCIe). PCI-Express. Next generation I/O standard.