Terminology And Definitions - Seco COM-Express CCOMe-C96 User Manual

1.8 Terminology and definitions

ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, an open industrial standard for the board's devices configuration and power management
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)
DP Display Port, a type of digital video display interface
DVI Digital Visual interface, a type of digital video display interface
eDP embedded Display Port, a type of digital video display interface developed especially for internal connections between boards and digital displays
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
JTAG Joint Test Action Group, common name of IEEE1149.1 standard for testing printed circuit boards and integrated circuits through the Debug port
LPC Bus Low Pin Count Bus, a low speed interface based on a very restricted number of signals, deemed to management of legacy peripherals
LVDS Low Voltage Differential Signalling, a standard for transferring data at very high speed using inexpensive twisted pair copper cables, usually used
for video applications
Mbps Megabits per second
N.A. Not Applicable
N.C. Not Connected
OS Operating System
PCI-e Peripheral Component Interface Express
PWM Pulse Width Modulation
PWR Power
SATA Serial Advance Technology Attachment, a differential half duplex serial interface for Hard Disks
SD Secure Digital, a memory card type
SDIO Secure Digital Input/Output, an evolution of the SD standard that allows use the use of the same SD interface to drive different Input/Output
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