Acronyms and Abbreviations

ABR  available bit rate

AC  alternating current

ACPI  Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

A/D  analog to digital

ADA   Americans with Disabilities Act

ADC  analog-to-digital converter

ADSL  Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AEC  acoustic echo cancellation

AGP  Accelerated Graphics Port

ANSI  American National Standards Institute

API  application programming interface

APIC  Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller

APM  Advanced Power Management

APS  analog protection system

ARC  advanced RISC computing

ASCII  American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATA  AT Attachment

ATAPI  ATA Packet Interface

ATM  Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATSC  Advanced Television Systems Committee

AT#UD  Unimodem diagnostics command

AUI  Attachment Unit Interface

A/V  audio/video

AVGA  Advanced VGA

BAR  base address register

BDA  BIOS Data Area

BIOS  basic I/O system

BNC  Bayonet Nut Connector. (Also British Naval Connector or Bayonet Neil Consulman)

BPB  BIOS Parameter Blocks

bpp  bits per pixel

bps  bits per second

CAD  computer-aided design

CBR  constant bit rate

CDMA  code division multiplexed access

CDPD  cellular digital packet data

CHAP  Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CID  CompatibleID

CIS  card information structure

CMOS  complementary metal-oxide semiconductor

COM  (1) Component Object Model;
(2) legacy serial port

CPTWG  Copyright Protection Technical Working Group

CPU  central processing unit

CRC  cyclic redundancy check

CSEL  Cable Select

CSN  Card Select Number

CSR  control and status register

CSS  copy scramble system

CT  Computer Telephony

D/A  digital to analog

DAC  digital-to-analog converter

dB  decibel

DBC  Device Bay Controller

DC  direct current

DCE  Data Communications Equipment

DDC  display data channel

DDC2B  DDC Standard, Version 2.0, Level B

DDI  device driver interface

DDK  Device Driver Kit

DES  data encryption standard

DHCP  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIB  device-independent bitmap

DIP  dual in-line package

DLL  dynamic link library

DLS  Downloadable Samples

DMA  direct memory access

DMI  Desktop Management Interface

DMTF  Desktop Management Task Force

DRAM  Direct Random Access Memory

DSP  digital signal processor

DSS  directory synchronization server

DSVD  digital simultaneous voice/data

DTMF  dual tone multifrequency

DTV  digital television

DVB  Digital Video Broadcast

DVC  Digital Video Compression

DVD  Optical disk storage that encompasses audio, video, and computer data

ECC  error correction code

ECP  extended capabilities port

ECR  Engineering Change Request

EDID  Extended Display Identification Data

EDT  European Deaf Telephone

EGA  enhanced graphics adapter

EIA  Electronics Industries Association

8-VSB  ATSC 8-Vestigial Side Band

EIO  Extended I/O

EISA  Extended Industry Standard Architecture

EMF  enhanced metafile

EMI  electromagnetic interference

EPG  electronic program guide

EPP  enhanced parallel port

ESCD  Extended System Configuration Data

ETSI  European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ExCA  Exchangeable Card Architecture

FAT  file allocation table

FAQ  frequently asked questions

FCC  Federal Communications Commission

FDC  floppy disk controller

FDDI  Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FEC  forward error correction

FIFO  first in/first out

FM  frequency modulation

FP  floating point

fps  frames per second

FS A  See Glossary.

FSIP  full-scale input

FSK  Frequency Shift Keyed

FSOP  full-scale output

FTP  file transfer protocol

GART  Graphics Address Re-mapping Table

GDI  Graphics Device Interface

GIDEI  General Input Device Emulation Interface

GSM  global system for mobile communications

HCL  Hardware Compatibility List

HCT  Hardware Compatibility Tests

HDLC  high-level data link control

HDTV  high-definition television

HEL  hardware emulation layer

HFC  hybrid fiber-coax

HID  Human Interface Device

HRTF  Head Related Transfer Function

HSCDS  high-speed cable data services

Hz  Hertz

IAL  Intel Architecture Labs

ICC  International Color Consortium

ICM  Image Color Matching

ID  identifier

IDE  Integrated Device Electronics

IEC  International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE  Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF  Internet Engineering Task Force

IF  Implementers Forum

IHV  independent hardware vendor

I/O  input/output

IOCTL  I/O control

IP  Internet Protocol

IPL  Initial Program Load

IPX  Internetwork Packet Exchange

IR  infrared

IrDA  Infrared Data Association

IRP  I/O request packet

IRQ  interrupt request

ISA  Industry Standard Architecture

ISDN  Integrated Service Digital Network

ISO  International Standards Organization

ISO/OSI  International Standards Organization Open Systems Interconnection

ISP  Internet service provider

ISV  independent software vendor

I2O  intelligent I/O

ITU  International Telecommunication Union

IVR  interactive voice response

K  kilobyte

Kbps  kilobytes per second

Kss  kilo-samples per second

L2  Level 2

LAN  local area network

LBA  logical block addressing

LCD  liquid crystal display

LED  light-emitting diode

LPCM  location PCM

LPT  line printer

LSB  least significant bit

LUN  logical unit number

LVE  Live Video Extensions

m  meter

MAC  Media Access Control

MB  megabyte

Mb/s  megabits per second

MDK  Modem Developers Kit

MEI  Matsushita Electronics Incorporated

MESN  Media Status Event Notification

MIDI  Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIP  Multimission Interactive Picture

MP@ML  Main Profile at Main Level

MPEG  Moving Picture Expert Group

ms  millisecond

MSB  most significant bit

MSCDEX  Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions

MSDN  Microsoft Developer Network

MUX  multiplex

NABTS  North American Basic Teletext

NDIS  Network Driver Interface Specification

NetBEUI  NetBIOS Extended User Interface

Net PC  Network PC

NICAM  Near-Instantaneously Companded Audio Multiplex

NIDRR  National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research

NIUF  National ISDN User’s Forum

NMI  Nonmaskable Interrupt

nrt  non-real time

NTFS  Windows NT file system

NT-1  network terminator

NTSC  National Television System Committee

OAM  operation and maintenance

OEM  original equipment manufacturer

OFDM  Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OpenHCI  Open Host Controller Interface

OR  See Glossary.

OSR  OEM service release

PAL  Phase Alternation Line

PC  personal computer

PCI  Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCIC  PC Card I/O cards

PCI PM  PCI Bus Power Management Specification, Revision 1.0 or higher

PCI 2.1  PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.1

PCM  pulse coded modulation

PCMCIA  Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCR  peak cell rate

PDA  Personal Digital Assistant

PIC  programmable interrupt controller

PID  program ID

PIO  programmed I/O

PIT  programmable interrupt timer

PME  power management event

POST  power-on self-test

POTS  plain old (analog) telephone service/system

PPP  point-to-point protocol

PRI  primary rate interface

PS/2  Personal System/2

PSTN  Public Switched Telephone Network

PTT  Post, Telephone, and Telegraph

QOS  quality of service

RADSL  rate adaptive digital subscriber line

RAID  redundant array of inexpensive disks

RAM  random-access memory

RAMDAC  RAM digital-to-analog converter

RF  radio frequency

RFC  request for comments

RFP  request for proposals

RISC  reduced instruction set computing

RM  resource management

RNA  remote network access

ROM  read-only memory

RP  recommended practice

RSA  public-key cipher for encryption/decryption

RSX  Intel Realistic Sound eXperience

rt  real time

SAP  (1) Service Access Protocol;
(2) secondary audio programming

SAR  segmentation and re-assembly

SCAM  SCSI Configured Automatically

SCART  Solent Club for Amateur Radio and Television; also called Peritel

SCID  service channel ID

SCL  system clock line

SCSI  small computer system interface

SDK  Software Developers Kit

SFF  Small Form Factor

SIG  Special Interest Group

SIR  Serial IR

SIT  Special Information Tone

SMART  Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology

SMBus  System Management Bus

SMPTE  Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

SNMP  Simple Network Management Protocol

SNR  signal-to-noise ratio

SOHO  small office/home office

SPI  Service Provider Interface

SPID  service profile ID

SPX  Sequenced Packet Exchange

SRC  sample rate converter

STI  Still Image architecture

STS/EN  Status and Enable

SVGA  Super VGA

TAM  telephone answering machine

TAPI  Telephony Application Program Interface

TCO  total cost of ownership

TCP/IP  Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol

TDD  Telephone Device for the Deaf

TDMA  time division multiplexed access

telset  local telephone instrument

TFTP  Trivial File Transfer Protocol

THD+N  total harmonic distortion

3-D  three-dimensional

TIA  Telecommunications Industry Association

TP  twisted pair

2-D  two dimensional

UART  Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

UBR  unspecified bit rate

UDF  Universal Disk Format

UHCI  Universal Host Controller Interface

UHF  ultra-high frequency

unidriver  universal printer driver

Unimodem  universal modem driver

USB  Universal Serial Bus

V  volts

VBE  VESA BIOS Extension

VBI  vertical blanking interval

VBR  variable bit rate

VCI  virtual channel ID

VCR  video cassette recorder

VDD  Virtual display driver

VDIF  Video Display Information Format

VDS  virtual DMA services

VESA  Video Electronics Standards Association

VfW  Video for Windows

VGA  video graphics array

VHF  very high frequency

VLB  VESA local bus

VPE  Video Port Extensions

VPI  virtual path ID

VpicD  virtual PIC device

Vpp  voltage point-to-point

VRML  virtual reality modeling language

VRMS  volts root-mean-square

VSD  vendor specific driver

Vsync  vertical synchronization

VxD  virtual device driver

WAN  wide area network

WBEM  Web-Based Enterprise Management

WC  write combining

WDL  Windows Driver Library

WDM  Win32 Driver Model

WfM  Wired for Management

WHIIG  Windows Hardware Instrumentation Implementation Guidelines, Version 1.0

WHQL  Windows Hardware Quality Labs

WinSock  Windows Sockets 2.0

WMI  Windows Management Instrumentation

WSS  Windows Sound System

YUV  See Glossary.

ZV  Zoomed Video