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Glossary of terms
The following glossary provides basic
definitions of the terminology used in the
DigiSuite documentation. It also explains
distinctions between similar or confusing terms.
A
A/V drive SCSI hard drive capable of storing
high-bandwidth audio/video data.
B
Backplane PCB (printed circuit board) on a
Movie-2 bus connector.
Printed circuit board (and mounted
Base board
components such as integrated circuits, etc.) that
is inserted into the computer's expansion slot. A
module board is often attached to the base board.
BIOS Basic Input/Output System settings for
system components, peripherals, etc. This
information is stored in a special battery-
powered memory and is usually accessible for
changes at computer start-up.
1. Electrical signal path between different
Bus
physical connection points. 2. System bus on
computers, represented by the expansion slot
connectors. 3. Movie-2 bus.
C
Card DigiSuite card as assembled and installed.
For our purposes, a card is the final assembled
product, whereas a board is simply one the of the
printed circuit boards that make up a card.
One or more DigiSuite cards
Card set
recognized by DigiSuite software as a single
functional unit. If a card set contains two or more
cards, these are connected by a Movie-2 bus.
There may be more than one card set connected
by a Movie-2 bus connector.
Appendix C: DigiSuite Glossary
1. Male connectors (usually
CON 1 and CON 2
with 90 or 70 pins) mounted at the top of a
DigiSuite card closest to the center of the card.
2. Their female counterpart on a Movie-2 bus.
Combination of the Movie-2 bus
Connector set
connectors CON 1 and 2 on a DigiSuite card and/
or a Movie-2 bus.
E
Connection slot to a type of computer
EISA slot
expansion bus found in some computers. EISA
is an extended version of the standard ISA slot
design.
Electrical connection slot
Expansion slot
mounted on a computer's motherboard (main
circuit board). It allows several peripheral
devices to be connected inside a computer.
H
Host bus Computer system bus to which a
DigiSuite card is connected by insertion in the
appropriate slot. This will be either a PCI, an
EISA, or an ISA bus.
I
Connection slot to a type of computer
ISA slot
expansion bus found in most computers. It's
larger in size than the PCI slots found on most
Pentium-based computers and provides
connections to the slower ISA bus. A variation
found in some newer computers is the EISA bus.
M
Printed circuit board and
Module board
mounted components that is attached to the base
board using screws and spacers.
or
Movie-2 bus Movie-2 bus connector
the-top connector used for high-speed data
transfer. These two terms refer to the assembled
component, which consists of a printed circuit
board (backplane) with attached connectors.
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