Glossary Intel® Server Boards S5520HC, S5500HCV, and S5520HCT TPS
Revision 1.8
Intel order number E39529-013
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Term Definition
PCB Print Circuit Board
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PECI Platform Environment Control Interface
PEF Platform Event Filtering
PEP Platform Event Paging
PMBus Power Management Bus
PMI Platform Management Interrupt
POST Power-on Self Test
PWM Pulse-Width Modulation
QPI QuickPath Interconnect
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAS Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
RASUM Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, Usability, and Manageability
RDIMM Registered Dual In-Line Memory Module
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
RMII Reduced Media Independent Interface
ROM Read Only Memory
RTC Real-Time Clock (Component of ICH peripheral chip on the server board)
SAS Serial Attached SCSI
SATA Serial ATA
SDR Sensor Data Record
SEEPROM Serial Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
SEL System Event Log
SES SCSI Enclosure Services
SGPIO Serial General Purpose Input/Output
SMBus System Management Bus
SMI Server Management Interrupt (SMI is the highest priority nonmaskable interrupt)
SMS Server Management Software
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SOL Serial Over LAN
SPD Serial Presence Detect
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
SPS Server Platform Service
SSD Solid State Drive
TBD To Be Determined
TDP Thermal Design Power
TIM Thermal Interface Material
TPS Technical Product Specification
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UDIMM Unbuffered Dual In-Line Memory Module
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UHCI Universal Host Controller Interface
URS Unified Retention System
USB Universal Serial Bus
UTC Universal time coordinate
VGA Video Graphic Array