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Item Acronym
17. NVRAM
Nonvolatile RAM, RAM that ret ains its contents when a unit is turned off.
18. ODD
Optical Disk Drive.
19. OS
Operating System.
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. An industry trade
20. PCMCIA
association that creates standards for notebook computer peripheral devices
such as PC cards.
21. PVDT
Private DataTAC, a registered trademark of Motorola Inc.
Random Access Memory, a type of
form of
22. RAM
order, i.e. at random.
Radio Frequency, The part of the general frequency spectrum between the
23. RF
audio and infrared light regions (about 10 kHz to10,000,000 MHz).
Restriction of Hazardous Substance, an EU initiative to reduce and recycle
24. RoHS
hazardous substances.
25. RTC
Real-Time Clock.
Sony/Philips Digital Interface: It is a standard (developed by Sony and Philips)
for the digital transfer of audio data. Transferring audio data between two
26. S/PDIF
devices digitally avoids the degradation of quality inherent in using digital to
analogue devices.
Specific Absorption Rate, a measure of the rate at which
energy is absorbed by the body when exposed to radio-frequency
27. SAR
electromagnetic field.
28. SATA
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or serial ATA.
Service set identifier, a code or name attached to a wireless Wi-Fi® network. All
29. SSID
devices must use this same, case-sensitive name to communicate.
30. TFT
Thin Film Transistor, a technology for producing thin touch screen displays.
31. TPM
Trusted Platform Module.
Universal Serial Bus, An external bus connection that supports a maximum
bandwidth of 12 Mbps and is widely used to connect peripheral devices
32. USB
(sometimes called dongles) to a computer.
33. VCR
Video Cassette Recorder.
34. VGA
Video Graphics Array.
35. WEEE
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment: A safety directive.
36. WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network.
37. WWAN
Wireless Wide Area Network.
38. WEGA
Wide Extended Graphics Array.
10-2
integrated circuits
that allow the stored
Description
computer data
storage. It today takes the
data
to be accessed in any
radio frequency
(RF)
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