Siglas

1. Referencias Generales

  • OS — Operating system

  • OSL — OS Service Layer

  • ABI — Application Binary Interface

  • HDL — Hardware Description Language

  • HPET — High Precision Event Timer

  • APIC — Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller

  • LAPIC — Local component, integrado en el procesador

  • SMI — Descripción

  • PCMCIA — Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

  • SPI — Serial Peripheral Interface — Interfase de periféricos en serie.

  • PIC — Programmable Interrupt Controller

  • DSP — Procesadores Digitales de Señal

  • FPGA — Matrices de puertas reconfigurables

  • DPMI — DOS Protected Mode Interface

  • PCB — Process Control Block - define el estado actual del sistema operativo.

  • IP — Intellectual Property(desambiguación).

  • DMI — Desktop Management Interface.

  • DMI(intel) — Direct Media Interface(desambiguación)

  • UMI(amd) — Descripción

  • DVI — Digital Visual Interface

  • GPGPU — General Purpous Computing on GPU

  • PE’s — Processing Elements

  • API — Application Programming Interface

  • CRT — Tubo de Rayos Catódicos

  • TDP — Thermal Design Power. Indica la cantidad de W de calor, que puede disipar el sistema antes de alcanzar el máximo d.

  • FMA — Fused Multiply-Add. Mejora para el cálculo de operaciones con punto flotante.

  • PASID — Process Adress Space Identifiers, Identificadores del espacio de direccionamiento de proceso.

  • EDID

  • JIT — Just In Time

  • PAE — Phisical Address Extension

  • FPU — (Floating Point Unit)??

  • FLOPS — Floatin Point per second

  • MIPS — Millions of instructions per second

  • LUN

  • PMMU — paged memory management unit

  • RCU — Read Copy Update rcu

  • PME — power management event support

  • UUID — User Unique Identifier

  • CSR — Cambridge Silicon Radio

  • IPC — InterProcess Communication

  • SMP — Symmetric multiprocessing

  • SMBUS — o SMB, System Management Bus

  • MCA — Micro Channel Architecture

  • VLB — VESA Local Bus

  • AER — Advanced Error Reporting

  • NFS — Descripción

  • GPM — relacionado con una interfase para ratón(controlador de ventos). Una “especie de Clipboard”.

  • ABRT — Automatic Bug Reporting Tool

  • MBR — Master Boot Record

  • EBR — Extended Boot Record, logical partition precedent sector unalloc space

  • ACM — communication device class Abstract Control Model interfase

  • UART

  • HPC — High Performance Computing

1.1 Referencias SO

  • SysV — SysV init run level system /etc/rc.d/

  • Systemd — a system and a service manager

  • Udev — Dynamic Device management

1.2 Placas

  • OEM — Original Equipment Manufacture

  • SoC — Sistemas en Chip

  • SCI — System Control Interrupt

  • ISA — Industry Standard Architecture, también llamado I/O channel.

  • ASIC — Circuitos Integrados de Aplicación Específica

  • PCI — Peripheral Component Interconnect

  • PCI-SIG — PCI Special Interest Group

  • BIOS — Basic Input Output System

  • CMOS — Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (RTC and basic info PC config)

  • SMBIOS — System Management BIOS, define data structures & acces methods to read BIOS.

  • Northdridge — Comunicacion directa con CPU y PCI-Express

  • SouthBridge — Otras operaciones secundarias sobre PCI - (Serial ATA, SCSI)???

  • ICH — Input/Output Controller Hub - SouthBridge

  • AoE — ATA over Ethernet

  • HID — Human Interface Device, it take INPUTS and give OUTPUTS. hid

  • HCI — Host Controller Interface

  • HCD — Host Controller Driver

  • OHCI — Open Host Controller Interface to talk to USB 1.1 - ver xHCI.md

  • UHCI — Universal Host Controller Interface - ver xHCI.md

  • EHCI — Enhanced Host Controller Interface - ver xHCI.md

  • AHCI — Advanced Host Controller Interface

  • xHCI — Extensible Host Controller Interface xHCI

  • OC — OverClocking

  • ``G`` — Connector

  • Form Factor(FF) — Standard ATX, Micro ATX, Mini ATX, Nano ATX, Pico ATX

  • AT — Advanced Tecnology

  • ATX — Advanced Tecnology Extended

  • FBS — Front Side Bus

  • Mother Board — Descripción — sadly called “mobo” thing

2. Referencias Memorias/chips

  • ROM — Read Only Memory

  • PROM — Programmable Read Only Memory

  • EPROM — Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

  • EEPROM — Electricaly Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

  • FLASH — rams de nueva generacion necesita explicar!

  • RAM — Random Acces Memory

  • MCU — Memory Controller Unit

  • DRAM — Dynamic Random Acces Memory. RAM dinamica “memoria principal del sistema”

  • SRAM — RAM estatica (común en el procesador como memoria caché)

  • SMRAM

  • NVRAM — Non Volatile RAM, llamada CMOS RAM en PCs, guarda la config de la BIOS

  • CMOS — tipo de memoria, usa la bateria de litio del sistema para guardar los datos tras offlined.

  • SADC — System Activity Data collector

  • FPGA — Field-programmable gate array(integrated circuit)

  • IOMMU — I/O Memory Management Unit.

  • DMA — Direct Memory Acces

  • DDR — Double Data Rate

  • DDRx — desambiguación// Data Direction Register

  • GDDR5 — Double Data Rate type five Synchronous Graphics Random-acces Memory

  • DDR SDRAM — Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random-Acces Memory

  • IMC — Integrated Memory Controller

  • MCH — Memory Controller Hub

  • MLC — Multi-Level Cell

  • NAND

  • NOR — Descripción

  • VRM — Voltage Regulator Module

  • PCB — Printed Circuit Board

  • CFI — Common flash memory interface

  • ECC memory — Error-correcting code memory

  • OOM — Out Of Memory manager

  • EDAC — Error Detection And Correction

  • DAC — Digital Audio Converter

  • LDPC — Descripción

  • SDDC — (Intel) Single Device Data Correction

  • MLC — Multi-Level Cell

  • SLC — Single-Level Cell

  • HBC — Human Based Computation

  • HMC — Hybrid Memory Cube

  • TSV — Through-Silicon Vias

  • HBM2 — High Bandwidth Memory(2ª generacion).

  • MTRR — Memory Type Range Registers.

  • MRPC — Memory-maped Remote Procedure Call

  • RSS — Resident Set Memory Size

  • MSB — Most Significant Bit?

  • LSB — Less Significant Bit?

  • SSP — Synchronous Serial Protocol

  • PSP — Programable Serial Protocol

  • MOSI — Master Out Slave In

  • MISO — Master In Slave Out

  • TXT — Trusted Execution Technology (intel TXT)

  • ISP — in-system-programming

  • PDI — Program and Debug Interface

  • AVR — family of microcontrollers developed by Atmel.

  • AVR — Alf and Vegard’s Risc (commonly accepted).

  • MIPS — Millions of Instructions Per Second

  • PXE — Preboot Execution Enviroment

  • JTAG — the Join Test Action Group

  • MCU

  • GPIO — General Purpose input/output (port/Ver ACPI). Pin genérico en un circuito integrado.

  • POST — Power-On Self-Test

  • UDMA — Ultra Direct Memory Acces

  • NPU — Network Processing unnit

3. Referencias a Disco Duro

  • IDE — Integrated Drive Electronic

  • ATA — AT Attachment

  • ATAPI — AT Attachment Packet Interface

  • PATA — Parallel ATA

  • SATA — Serial ATA

  • SAS — Serial Attached SCSI

  • MBR — Master Boot Record

  • VBR — Volume Boot Record

  • LBA — Logical Block Addressing

  • CHS — Cylinder Head Sector

  • GPT — Descripción

  • EFI — Descripción

  • UEFI — Descripción

  • HDD — Hard Disk Drive

  • SSD — Solid State Drive

  • SSHD — Solid State Hybrid Drive

4. Referincias a Unidades de procesamiento

  • NUMA — Non Uniform Memory Acces (policy to alocate memory areas)`hardware/procesador <numa.md>`_

  • HSA — (AMD) Heterogeneus System Architecture

  • CPU — Central Process Unit, Unidad de Procesador Central.

  • APU — Accelerated Processing Unit, is a CPU and a GPU on a single die, known as Fusion.

  • MPS — Multiprocessor Specification

  • MSR — Model Specific Registers

  • AMD64 — the x86_64 chipset invented by AMD

  • LMSLE — (CPU-AMD) Long Mode Segment Limit Enable

  • IA64 — Intel Itanium chipset

  • IA32 — Intel architecture, 32-bit.

  • 8080

  • LONG MODE — 64bit OS can acces 64bit instructions

  • REAL MODE — or virtual 8086 mode, apps can’t run on LONG MODE

5. Referencias APM(Advanced Power Management)

  • APM — Advanced Power Management apm

6. Referencias Acpi/Acpica/Tablas-Acpi

  • ASWG — ACPI Specification Working Group

  • API — Application Programming Interface

  • ACPI — Advanced Control Power Interface

  • ACPICA — ACPI Component Architecture

  • SLIC — System Licensed Internal Code

  • OSI — Operating System Interfaces” (_OSI)

  • OSPM — Operating System directed Power Management

  • BGRT — Tabla de recursos del arranque de gráficos.

  • CSRT — Tabla de recursos del núcleo del sistema.

  • DBG2 — Tabla 2 del puerto de depuración.

  • DSDT — Sistema de Descripción de Tabla Diferenciado

  • DMAR — DMA Remapping table

  • DRHD — DMA Remapping Hardware Unit Definition

  • RMRR — Reserved memory Region Reporting Structure

  • ZLR — Zero length reads from PCI devices

  • IOVA — IO Virtual address.

  • FACP

  • FACS — Firmware ACPI Control Structure

  • FADT — Tabla de Descripcion fija ACPI

  • FPDT — Tabla para la mejora de datos del firmware.

  • GTDT

  • HPET — Hight Precision Event Timer

  • MADT — Tabla controlador múltiple de interrupción.

  • MCFG

  • RSDP

  • RSDT

  • SSDT — System Service Desription Table- Tabla de descripción de servicio de sistema

  • XSDT

  • WSMT


  • DSL — .dsl — extension, disassembled ASL

  • AML — ACPI Machine Language

  • ASL — ACPI Source Language

  • ASM

Glosario ACPI

Sigla

Descripción

BGRT

Boot Graphics Resource Table. Tabla de recursos de gráficos de arranque.

DSL

Domain Specific Language (en contexto ACPI, el ASL desensamblado).

OSPM

Operating System-directed Power Management.

  • GPE — General Purpouse Events

  • SCI — Sistema de control de Interrupcion


7. Referencias a Video

  • UNREAL MODE — intel 80286, ega video type

  • SMM — System Management Moode or rin-2, all execution is suspended

  • VIA — Descripción

  • TRANSMETA — Descripción

  • SRAT — tabla…

  • AGP — Accelerated Graphics Port

  • APU — Accelerated Processing Unit, is a CPU and a GPU on a single die, known as Fusion.

  • GPU — Graphic Processing Unit

  • ATI — GPU vendor acquired by AMD in 2006

  • GART — Graphics Address Remapping table

  • HUD — Heads Up Display, el jad, o hud. Arriva las manos.


8. Referencias a Supuestos

  • CMMA — Collaborative Memory Management Assist

  • Intel-VT — Virtualization technology(by Intel)

  • AMD-V — Virtualization technology(by AMD side), initialy SVM(“Flag”, Secure Virtual Machine)

9. Referencias a criptografia

  • GPG — GnuPG, GNU Privacy Guard

  • SELinux

  • TLS

  • bss — Basis Service Set. on static libs, the need to init vars before call it(c/c++).

  • HMAC — Hash-Based message authentification code

10. Referencias Cryptomonedas

  • ETC — Ethereum Classic

  • ETH — Ethereum

  • BlockChain — Distributed database (equiparable al commit!). Registro público de una

10.1 Transaccion de bitcoin

  • Block — record in the block chain contining “confirms” and many “waiting transactions”

  • DAO — Descentralised Autonomous Organisation

  • DAPP — Decentralized Application

  • Bitcoin — The concept, the net!

  • bitcoin — units of account, unidad de medida.

  • bit — subunidad del bitcoin(BTC, XBT)

  • hash rate — Descripción measuring unit of the processing power of the Bitcoin network.

  • Contract — an account which contains, and is controlled by EVM code.

  • EVM code — Ethereum Virtual Machine Code. Programming language

  • Message — a sort of “virtual transaction” sent by EVM code

  • Uncle — The gender-neutral alternative to aunt/uncle

  • Ommer — a child of a parent, of a parent of a block that is not a parent. Child of an ancestor.

  • Censorship Fault — a validator failing to accept valid messages from other validators.

  • PoW — Proof of Work

  • DAG — Direct Acyclic Graph

11. Referencias/enlaces

11.1.1 Nucleo/Repositorios

  • __HTTPS__

  • __FTP__

11.1.2 Documentacion - HTTPS

11.2 Patentes

  • fwupdmgr — a more comprehensive tool device