Intel® Server Board S5500WB TPS Glossary
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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.
Table 58: Glossary
Term Definition
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
AP Application Processor
APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Control
ARP Address Resolution Protocal
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
BIOS Basic Input / Output System
BIST Built-In Self Test
BMC Baseboard Management Controller
Bridge Circuitry connecting one computer bus to another, allowing an agent on one to access the other
BSP Bootstrap Processor
Byte 8-bit quantity.
CATERR On a catastrophic hardware event the core signals CATERR to the uncore. The core enters a halted
state that can only be exited by a reset.
CBC Chassis Bridge Controller (A microcontroller connected to one or more other CBCs, together they
bridge the IPMB buses of multiple chassis.)
CEK Common Enabling Kit
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CMOS In terms of this specification, this describes the PC-AT compatible region of battery-backed 128 bytes
of memory, which normally resides on the server board.
DCMI Data Center Management Interface
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocal
DPC Direct Platform Control
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EHCI Enhanced Host Controller Interface
EMP Emergency Management Port
EPS External Product Specification
FBD Fully Buffered DIMM
F MB Flexible Mother Board
FRB Fault Resilient Booting
FRU Field Replaceable Unit
FSB Front Side Bus
GB 1024 MB
GPIO General Purpose I/O
GTL Gunning Transceiver Logic
GPA Guest Physical Address
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