Terminology And Definitions - Seco SBC-C90 User Manual

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
DDR4 DDR, 4th generation
DP Display Port, a type of digital video display interface
ECC Error Correcting Code, a peculiar type of memory module with 72-bit of data instead of 64, where the additional 8 bit are used to detect and correct
possible errors on the remaining 64-bit data bus
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
Mbps Megabits per second
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
OS Operating System
PCI-e Peripheral Component Interface Express
PSU Power Supply Unit
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