Introduction
Development Kit User’s Manual 11
Term/Acronym Definition
Pin The contact point of a component package to the traces on a substrate,
such as the motherboard. Signal quality and timings may be measured at
the pin.
Silver Cascade The name of the development board in this development kit that uses
DDR3 SDRAM
System Bus The System Bus is the microprocessor bus of the processor.
System
Management Bus
A two-wire interface through which various system components may
communicate.
VCC (CPU core) VCC (CPU core) is the core power for the processor. The system bus is
terminated to VCC (CPU core).
Table 3 defines the acronyms used throughout this document.
Table 3. Acronyms
Acronym Definition
AC Alternating Current
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ADD2 Advanced Digital Display 2
ADD2N Advanced Digital Display 2 Normal
AGTL or AGTL+ Assisted Gunning Transceiver Logic (See also Table 2 above)
AMI American Megatrends Inc. (BIOS developer)
AMPS or iAMPS (Intel) Adaptive Mobile Power System
AMT or iAMT (Intel) Active Management Technology
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment (disk drive interface)
ATX Advance Technology Extended (motherboard form factor)
BGA Ball Grid Array
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BSEL Bus Select (Front Side Bus frequency control signals)
CL Controller Link
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
COM Communications
CPU Central Processing Unit (processor)
CRB Customer Reference Board
DC Direct Current
DC Dual-Core
DDR Double Data Rate
DDR2 Double Data Rate SDRAM version 2
DDR3 Double Data Rate SDRAM version 3
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