Owner's manual

aTCA-N700 SW Users Guide
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Table 1-1 Abbreviations
Terms Description
ATCA Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture
Base Interface
ATCA Base Interface on the Zone-2 connectors to connect to
the dual HUBs, 4 differential pairs per Base Channel.
Blade A printed circuit board assembly that plugs into a chassis
BSP Board Support Package
Boot-flash Flash memory where the bootloader program is stored
Bootloader (bootrom) Code used to boot the System before loading OS
DDR Double Data Rate DRAM memory
DIMM Dual Inline Memory Module
ECC Error Correction Control
E-keying
Standard defined by PICMG useful to verify whether the
ATCA blade plugged in is compliant to the fabric link
capabilities
Fabric Interface
ATCA Fabric Interface on the Zone-2 connectors to connect
to the dual Switch Fabric Blades
Fabric Slot A slot supporting a link connection to/from each node slot
FRU Field Replaceable Unit
GPIO General Purpose Input/Output
Hot-swap
Functions of replacing system components without shutting
down the system
IPMB Intelligent Platform Management Bus
IPMB-L IPMB Local interface
IPMC Intelligent Platform Management Controller
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
JTAG Joint Test Action Group
LMP Local Management CPU
MAC Media Access Controller
MMC Module Management Controller (on RTM or AMC)
NP or NPU Network Processor Unit
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect-Express
PHY Physical Layer or Physical Layer Device
PICMG PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
RGMII Reduced Gigabit Medium Independent Interface
RXAUI Reduced XAUI, having 2 lanes@6.25Gbps
RTM Rear Transition Module
SDR Sensor Data Record
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SFP Small Form Pluggable (1G interface)
SFP+ Small Form Pluggable Plus (10G interface)
SGMII Serial Gigabit Medium Independent Interface
SOL Serial Over LAN
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
QSFP+ Quad Small Form Pluggable Plus (40G interface)
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter
VLP Very Low Profile, DRAM Module Form Factor Spec
XAUI
10 Gigabit (X) Attachment Unit Interface, having 4
lanes@3.125Gbps
XLAUI 40 Gigabit (XL) Attachment Unit Interface