Motorola MVME2300 Series User Manual

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thin Ethernet

See 10base-2.

twisted-pair Ethernet

See 10Base-T.

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

Universe

ASIC developed by Tundra in consultation with Motorola which
provides the complete interface between the PCI bus and the
VMEbus.

VESA (bus)

Video Electronics Standards Association (or VL bus). An internal
interconnect standard for transferring video information to a
computer display system.

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).

volatile memory

A memory in which the data content is lost when the power supply
is disconnected.

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