Glossary And Conventions; Glossary - Performance Computer PT-VME161 User Manual

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Section PT-VME161 INTRODUCTION

Glossary and Conventions

Glossary

CPU - Central Processing Unit (MC68040 or MC68EC040)
DMA - Direct Memory Access, hardware controller block data transfers.
DMAC - Direct Memory Access Controller.
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory.
longword - In this manual, this term indicates a 32-bit value.
MByte - Megabyte.
ms. - Millisecond.
reserved - The term used for bits, bytes, fields, code values, etc. that are set aside for future use.
RTC - Real Time Clock.
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface.
SCV64 - Advanced single chip VMEbus interface.
word - In this manual, this term indicates a 16-bit value.
xxh - Numbers followed by lowercase h are hexadecimal values. All other numbers are decimal values.
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