Terminology And Definitions - Seco Udoo X86 User Manual

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1.7 Terminology and definitions

ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, an open industrial standard for the board's devices configuration and power management

AHCI

Advanced Host Controller Interface, a standard which defines the operation modes of SATA interface

API

Application Program Interface, a set of commands and functions that can be used by programmers for writing software for specific Operating

Systems

BIOS

Basic Input / Output System, the Firmware Interface that initializes the board before the OS starts loading

CEC

Consumer Electronics Control, an HDMI feature which allows controlling more devices connected together by using only one remote control

DDC

Display Data Channel, a kind of I2C interface for digital communication between displays and graphics processing units (GPU)

DDR

Double Data Rate, a typology of memory devices which transfer data both on the rising and on the falling edge of the clock

DDR3L

DDR, 3rd generation, Low voltage

DP++

Multimode Display Port, a video interface which can support both Display Port displays (directly) and HDMI/DVI displays (by using and external

adapter)

GBE

Gigabit Ethernet

Gbps

Gigabits per second

GND

Ground

GPI/O

General purpose Input/Output

HD Audio

High Definition Audio, most recent standard for hardware codecs developed by Intel

HDMI

High Definition Multimedia Interface, a digital audio and video interface

I2C Bus

Inter-Integrated Circuit Bus, a simple serial bus consisting only of data and clock line, with multi-master capability

IoT

Internet of Things

M.2

recent specifications for internal expansion modules, which defines many pinouts and sizes for different purposes. Can include SATA, PCI

Express, USB, UART, DP interfaces

Mbps

Megabits per second

MMC/eMMC

MultiMedia Card / embedded MMC, a type of memory card, having the same interface as the SD card. The eMMC is the embedded version of

the MMC. They are devices that incorporate the flash memories on a single BGA chip.

N.A.

Not Applicable

N.C.

Not Connected

OpenCL

Open Computing Language, a software library based on C99 programming language, conceived explicitly to realise parallel computing using

Graphics Processing Units (GPU)

OpenGL

Open Graphics Library, an Open Source API dedicated to 2D and 3D graphics

X86

in 2004 for higher audio quality

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