Terminology And Definitions - Seco SBC-C41-pITX 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
EHCI Enhanced Host Controller interface, a high-speed controller for USB ports, able to support USB2.0 standard
FFC/FPC Flexible Flat Cable / Flat Panel Cable
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
LPDDR4 Low Power DDR, 4
LVDS Low Voltage Differential Signaling, a standard for transferring data at very high speed using inexpensive twisted pair copper cables, usually used for
video applications
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
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