Intel® Server Board S1200SP Family Technical Product Specification
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Glossary
This appendix contains important terms used in the preceding chapters. For ease of use, numeric entries are
listed first (for example, “82460GX”) with alpha entries following (for example, “AGP 4x”). Acronyms are then
entered in their respective place, with non-acronyms following.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Advanced Encryption Standard
Advanced Memory Buffer (there is an AMB on each FBDIMM)
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
Address Resolution Protocol
Application specific integrated circuit
Baseboard management controller
Circuitry connecting one computer bus to another, allowing an agent on one to access the other.
Chassis bridge controller. A microcontroller connected to one or more other CBCs. Together they
bridge the IPMB buses of multiple chassis.
Closed-loop thermal throttling (memory throttling mode)
In terms of this specification, this describes the PC-AT compatible region of battery-backed 128
bytes of memory on the server board.
Control and status register
Data cache. Processor-local cache dedicated for memory locations explicitly loaded and stored by
running code.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Electrically erasable programmable read-only memory
Emergency management port
External Product Specification
Fast management link network interface
General-purpose input/output
Instruction cache. Processor-local cache dedicated for memory locations retrieved through
instruction fetch operations.
Inter-integrated circuit bus