Terminology And Definitions - Seco SBC-C31 User Manual

1.8 Terminology and definitions

API Application Program Interface, a set of commands and functions that can be used by programmers for writing software for specific Operating
Systems
CAN Bus Controller Area network, a protocol designed for in-vehicle communication.
CEC Consumer Electronics Control, an HDMI feature which allows controlling more devices connected together by using only one remote control
CSI2 MIPI Camera Serial Interface, 2nd generation standard regulating communication between a peripheral device (camera) and a host processor
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.
eDP embedded Display Port, a type of digital video display interface developed especially for internal connections between boards and digital displays.
FFC/FPC Flexible Flat Cable / Flat Panel Cable
GBE Gigabit Ethernet
Gbps Gigabits per second
GND Ground
GPI/O General purpose Input/Output
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
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
I2S Inter-Integrated Circuit Sound, an audio serial bus protocol interface developed by Philips (now NXP) in 1986
LPDDR4 Low Power DDR, 4th generation
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)
OpenVG Open Vector Graphics, an Open Source API dedicated to hardware accelerated 2D vector graphics
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SBC-C31 User Manual - Rev. First Edition: 1.0 - Last Edition: 1.0 - Author: A.R. - Reviewed by D.T. - Copyright © 2021 SECO S.p.A.
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