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SM-B79
SM-B79 User Manual - Rev. First Edition: 1.0 - Last Edition: 1.0 - Author: A.R - Reviewed by S.R. - Copyright © 2021 SECO S.p.A.
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1.8 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 Advanced 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
CAN Bus Controller Area network, a protocol designed for in-vehicle communication
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.
DP Display Port, a type of digital video display interface
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
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
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
MMC/eMMC MultiMedia Card / embedded MMC, a type of memory card, having the same interface as the SD card. The eMMC is the embedded version of