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Glossary
PATA
Interface for hard disk drives and optical drives, with parallel data transmission rate up to 100
Mbps.
PC card
Trademark of the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA).
Designation for auxiliary cards that conform with PCMCIA specifications. A PC card that has
roughly the size of a credit card can be plugged into a PCMCIA slot. Version 1 specifies
cards of Type I with a thickness of 3.3 millimeters, which are designed mainly for use as
external memory. Version 2 of the PCMCIA specification also defines cards of Type II with a
thickness of 5 mm and cards of Type III with a thickness of 10.5 mm. Type II cards can
realize devices such as modems, fax cards and network interface cards. Type III cards are
equipped with devices that require more space, for example wireless communications
modules, or rotary storage media such as hard disk drives, for example.
PC/104 / PC/104-Plus
Two bus architectures are especially fashionable today in the industrial world. PC/104 and
PC/104-
and logical layout of the two bus systems is identical with ISA (PC/104) and PCI (PC/104-
Plus
systems. Their advantage is the compact design and the resulting space they save.
PCIe
PCI-Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is an extension standard for
connection of I/O devices with the chipset of a main processor. PCIe is the successor of PCI,
PCI-X and AGP and offers a higher data transmission rate in comparison to its
predecessors.
PCMCIA
Association consisting of approx. 450 member companies of the computer industry whose
focus is set on providing worldwide standards for miniaturization and flexible use of PC
expansion cards in order to provide basic technologies to the market.
PEG interface
PCI Express for Graphics. Graphics interface with 16 PCIe lanes for expansions with
graphics modules.
PIC mode
Peripheral interrupt controller. 15 interrupt lines are available.
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Plus
. Both are standard in single-board computers of the PC class. The electrical
). Software cannot usually detect a difference between them and normal desktop bus
Operating Instructions, 06/2011, A5E03473780-01
SIMATIC IPC547D