Table 1-1 glossary – ADLINK aTCA-N700 User Manual

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aTCA-N700 HW Users Guide

Table 1-1 Glossary

Terms

Description

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATCA

Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture

Base Interface

ATCA Base Interface on the Zone-2 connectors to connect to
the dual hubs, 4 differential pairs per Base Channel.

Blade

A printed circuit board assembly that plugs into a chassis

BSP

Board Support Package

Boot-flash

Flash memory where the bootloader program is stored

Bootloader

Code used to boot the System before loading OS

DDR

Double Data Rate DRAM memory

DFT/DFM

Design For Test/Manufacturing

DIMM

Dual Inline Memory Module

ECC

Error Correction Control

E-keying

Standard defined by PICMG useful to verify whether the ATCA
blade plugged in is compliant to the fabric link capabilities

Fabric
Interface

ATCA Fabric Interface on the Zone-2 connectors to connect to
the dual Switch Fabric Blades

Fabric Slot

A slot supporting a link connection to/from each node slot

FRU

Field Replaceable Unit

GPIO

General Purpose Input/Output

Hot-swap

Functions of replacing system components without shutting
down the system

IPMB

Intelligent Platform Management Bus

IPMB-L

IPMB Local interface

IPMC

Intelligent Platform Management Controller

IPMI

Intelligent Platform Management Interface

JTAG

Joint Test Action Group

MAC

Media Access Controller

MMC

Module Management Controller

NPU

Network Processor Unit

OOS

Out Of Service

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCIe

Peripheral Component Interconnect-Express

PHY

Physical Layer or Physical Layer Device

PICMG

PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group

RGMII

Reduced Gigabit Medium Independent Interface

RTM

Rear Transition Module

RXAUI

Reduced XAUI, having 2 [email protected]

SDR

Sensor Data Record

SDRAM

Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SFP

Small Form Pluggable (1G interface)

SFP+

Small Form Pluggable Plus (10G interface)

SGMII

Serial Gigabit Medium Independent Interface

SOL

Serial Over LAN

QSFP+

Quad Small Form Pluggable Plus (40G interface)

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter

VLP

Very Low Profile, DRAM Module Form Factor Spec

XAUI

10 Gigabit (X) Attachment Unit Interface, having 4
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XLAUI

40 Gigabit (XL) Attachment Unit Interface

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