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F. Glossary
Acronyms
Descriptions
AC
Alternate Current
ACPI
Advanced Configuration & Power Interface
AdvancedMC
(Same as AMC). Advanced Mezzanine Card.
AHCI
Advanced Host Controller Interface
AMC
(Same as AdvancedMC). Advanced Mezzanine Card.
AMC.0
Advanced Mezzanine Card Base Specification.
PCI Express and Advanced Switching on AdvancedMC. A subsidiary specification to the Advanced Mezzanine
AMC.1
Card Base Specification (AMC.0).
Ethernet Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification. A subsidiary specification to the Advanced Mezzanine
AMC.2
Card Base Specification (AMC.0).
Advanced Mezzanine Card Specification for Storage. A subsidiary specification to the Advanced Mezzanine
AMC.3
Card Base Specification (AMC.0).
AMI
American Megatrends Inc
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
APIC
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation. Next generation I/O implementations to support an increased
ARI
number of concurrent users of a multi-Function device
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII codes represent text in computers,
ASCII
communications equipment, and other devices that work with text.
Active State Power Management. A power management protocol used to manage PCI Express-based serial
ASPM
link devices.
ATA
Advanced Technology Attachment
ATCA
Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture
Address Translation Services. Set of transactions for PCI Express components to exchange and use
ATS
translated addresses in support of native I/O Virtualization.
BBS
BIOS Boot Specification
BI
Base Interface. Backplane connectivity defined by the ATCA.
BIOS
Basic Input/Output System
BMC
Base Management Controller
BOM
Bill Of Material
BT
Block Transfer. An optional IPMI system management interface.
BW
BandWidth
CB
Certification Body
CD
Compact Disk
CDROM
(Same as CD-ROM). Compact Disk Read-Only Memory.
CE
Conformit?Europ?nne. European Conformity.
CFM
Cubic Foot per Minute
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations
CH
CHannel
CLK
CLocK. Acronym often used in signal name.
CLK1
AdvancedTCA bused resource Synch clock group 1
F-1
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