User’s Manual Glossary-2
Glossary
DVD-RW: Digital Versatile Disc ReWritable
DVD+R DL: Digital Versatile Disc Recordable Double Layer
eSATA: external Serial ATA
ECP: extended capabilities port
FDD: floppy diskette drive
FIR: fast infrared
GB: gigabyte
HDD: hard disk drive
HDMI: High-Definition Multimedia Interface
IDE: integrated drive electronics
I/O: input/output
IrDA: Infrared Data Association
IRQ: interrupt request
KB: kilobyte
LAN: local area network
LCD: liquid crystal display
LED: light emitting diode
LSI: large scale integration
MB: megabyte
MMC: multi media card
OCR: optical character recognition (reader)
PC: personal computer
PCB: printed circuit board
PCI: peripheral component interconnect
RAM: random access memory
RGB: red, green, and blue
ROM: read only memory
RTC: real time clock
SCSI: small computer system interface
SD: Secure Digital
SDHC: Secure Digital High Capacit
SDXC: Secure Digital Extended Capacity
SDRAM: synchronous dynamic random access memory
SIO: serial input/output
SLI: Scalable Link Interface
SSD: Solid state drive
TFT: thin-film transistor
UART: universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter
USB: Universal Serial Bus
UXGA: ultra extended graphics array