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AFL-W19A/W19B/17D/W15A-N270 Panel PC
Liquid crystal display (LCD) is a flat, low-power display device that
LCD
consists of two polarizing plates with a liquid crystal panel in between.
Low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) is a dual-wire, high-speed
LVDS
differential electrical signaling system commonly used to connect LCD
displays to a computer.
The Power-on Self Test (POST) is the pre-boot actions the system
POST
performs when the system is turned-on.
Random Access Memory (RAM) is volatile memory that loses data when
RAM
power is lost. RAM has very fast data transfer rates compared to other
storage like hard drives.
Serial ATA (SATA) is a serial communications bus designed for data
SATA
transfers between storage devices and the computer chipsets. The SATA
bus has transfer speeds up to 1.5 Gbps and the SATA II bus has data
transfer speeds of up to 3.0 Gbps.
Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) refers to
S.M.A.R.T
automatic status checking technology implemented on hard disk drives.
Universal Asynchronous Receiver-transmitter (UART) is responsible for
UART
asynchronous communications on the system and manages the system's
serial communication (COM) ports.
The Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) specification is a
UHCI
register-level interface description for USB 1.1 Host Controllers.
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an external bus standard for
USB
interfacing devices. USB 1.1 supports 12Mbps data transfer rates and
USB 2.0 supports 480Mbps data transfer rates.
The Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a graphics display system developed
VGA
by IBM.
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