IEI Technology NOVA-9102 User Manual page 241

NOVA-9152 and NOVA-9102 5.25" Motherboard
PCIe PCI Express (PCIe) is a communications bus that uses dual data lines
for full-duplex (two-way) serial (point-to-point) communications
between the SBC components and/or expansion cards and the SBC
chipsets. Each line has a 2.5 Gbps data transmission rate and a 250
MB/s sustained data transfer rate.
POST The Power-on Self Test (POST) is the pre-boot actions the system
performs when the system is turned-on.
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) refers to redundantly
backing up data on multiple disks to ensure that if one disk fails, the
data is not lost and can be restored from the remaining disks in the
array.
RAM Random Access Memory (RAM) is volatile memory that loses data
when power is lost. RAM has very fast data transfer rates compared to
other storage like hard drives.
SATA Serial ATA (SATA) is a serial communications bus designed for data
transfers between storage devices and the computer chipsets. The
SATA bus has transfer speeds up to 1.5 Gbps and the SATA II bus has
data transfer speeds of up to 3.0 Gbps.
S.M.A.R.T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) refers
to automatic status checking technology implemented on hard disk
drives.
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver-transmitter (UART) is responsible
for asynchronous communications on the system and manages the
system's serial communication (COM) ports.
UHCI The Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) specification is a
register-level interface description for USB 1.1 Host Controllers.
USB The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an external bus standard for
interfacing devices. USB 1.1 supports 12 Mb/s data transfer rates,
while USB 2.0 supports 480 Mb/s data transfer rates.
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