SM-B69
SM-B69 User Manual - Rev. First Edition: 1.0 - Last Edition: 1.1 - Author:A.R - Reviewed by M.B. - Copyright © 2020 SECO S.p.A.
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Terminology and definitions
ACPI
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, an open industrial standard for the board
’
s devices configuration and power management
AHCI
Advanced Host Controller Interface, a standard which defines the operation modes of SATA interface
API
Application Program Interface, a set of commands and functions that can be used by programmers for writing software for specific Operating
Systems
AVC
Adavanced Video Coding, a video compression standard, also known as H.264
BIOS
Basic Input / Output System, the Firmware Interface that initializes the board before the OS starts loading
CSI2
MIPI Camera Serial Interface, 2nd generation standard regulating communication between a peripheral device (camera) and a host processor
DDC
Display Data Channel, a kind of I2C interface for digital communication between displays and graphics processing units (GPU)
DDR
Double Data Rate, a typology of memory devices which transfer data both on the rising and on the falling edge of the clock.
eDP
embedded Display Port, a type of digital video display interface developed especially for internal connections between boards and digital displays
GBE
Gigabit Ethernet
Gbps
Gigabits per second
GND
Ground
GPI/O
General purpose Input/Output
HEVC
High Efficiency Video Coding, a video compression standard, also known as H.265
HD Audio
High Definition Audio, most recent standard for hardware codecs developed by Intel
®
in 2004 for higher audio quality
HDMI
High Definition Multimedia Interface, a digital audio and video interface
I2C Bus
Inter-Integrated Circuit Bus, a simple serial bus consisting only of data and clock line, with multi-master capability
I2S
Inter-Integrated Circuit Sound, an audio serial bus protocol interface developed by Philips (now NXP) in 1986
JTAG
Joint Test Action Group, common name of IEEE1149.1 standard for testing printed circuit boards and integrated circuits through the Debug port
JPEG/MJPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group, standard method for lossy compression of digital images. Motion JPEG is a video compression format
LAN
Local Area Network
LPC Bus
Low Pin Count Bus, a low speed interface based on a very restricted number of signals, deemed to management of legacy peripherals
LPDDR4
Low-Power Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory, 4
th
generation
LVDS
Low Voltage Differential Signalling, a standard for transferring data at very high speed using inexpensive twisted pair copper cables, usually used
for video applications
Mbps
Megabits per second
MIPI
Mobile Industry Processor Interface alliance
