Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations

µS microsecond
AC alternating current
ACCM asynchronous control character map
ACK acknowledgment
ACL access control list
ACP Analog Content Protection
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ADF automatic document feeder
AeroAT Aero Assessment Tool
AHCI Advanced Host Controller Interface
AIO all-in-one
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
AMR Audio Modem Riser
MR Modem Riser
APS Advanced Photo System
ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Businesses
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AT Advanced Technology
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAPI ATA Packet Interface
AVR audio/video receiver
BCSP BlueCore Serial Protocol
BDA Broadcast Driver Architecture
BE best effort
BIOS basic input/output system
BMC Baseboard Management Controller
bps bits per second
CBLID cable ID
CD compact disc
CDB command descriptor block
CEA Consumer Electronics Association
CFA Compact Flash Association
CGMS-A copy generation management system - analog
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHS cylinder head sector
CLR Common Language Runtime
CMOS complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
CMYK cyan yellow magenta black
CNR communications and networking riser
COM Component Object Model
COPP Certified Output Protection Protocol
CRASH Comparative Reliability Analyzer for Software and Hardware
CRC cyclic redundancy check
CRT cathode ray tube
CS cable select
CSR configuration status register
DAC digital/analog converter; dual address cycle
dB decibel
DCF data call-first
DCR design change request
DDC/CI Display Data Channel / Command Interface
DDI device driver interface
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIFx Driver Install Framework
DIFxAPI Driver Install Framework API
DIFxAPP Driver Install Framework for Applications
DLL dynamic-link library
DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance
DLP Texas Instruments digital light processing
DMA direct memory access
DNS Domain Name Service
DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
DPC deferred procedure call
DPInst Driver Package Installer
DRM Digital Rights Management
DRS Driver Reliability Signature
DSCP differential services control point
DSL digital subscriber line
DSM data source manager; device-specific module
DSS digital satellite system
DSTN double-layer supertwisted nematic
DTE data terminal equipment
DTV digital television
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
DVD digital video disc
DVI Digital Video Interface
DWA device wire adapter
DWORD doubleword
DXGI DirectX Graphics Infrastructure
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
ECC error correction code
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECR engineering change request
EDD enhanced disk drive services
EDID extended display identification data
EDR event data recorder
E-EDID enhanced extended display identification data
EFI Extensible Firmware Interface
EHCI Enhanced Host Controller Interface
EIA Electronic Industries Association
ESCD extended system configuration data
ESD electrostatic discharge
FC Fibre Channel; flow control
FC-FS Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling
FC-HBA Common HBA API
FCP-2 Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI, Version 2
FDC floppy disk controller
FIR fast infrared
FIS frame information structure
FM frequency modulation
FS full scale
FUA force unit access
GART graphics address remapping table
GB gigabyte
Ghz gigahertz
GPIO general-purpose I/O
GPU graphics processing unit
GTF generalized timing formula
GUI graphical user interface
GUID globally unique identifier
HAL hardware abstraction layer
HBA host bus adapter
HCI Host Controller Interface
HCT hardware compatibility test
HD high definition
HDC hard disk controller
HDD hard disk drive
HDK hardware development kit
HDLC high-level data link control
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HID human interface device
HPD hot plug detect
HPET high-precision event timer
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HWA host wire adapter
I/O input/output
I2C Inter-IC
I2O intelligent I/O
IA-64 Intel 64-bit
IA-PC Intel Architecture personal computer
ICC International Color Consortium
ICM Image Color Management
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ID identifier
IDE Integrated Device Electronics
IE information element
IEC International Electromechanical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IFSC information field size integrated circuit card
IFSD information field size device
IGD Internet gateway device
IHV independent hardware vendor
IKE Internet key exchange
INCITS InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
INF filename extension for information file
INI initialization files
IP Internet Protocol
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
IPSec Internet Protocol Security
IR infrared
IrDA Infrared Data Association
IrLAP Infrared Link Access Protocol
IrLMP Infrared Link Management Protocol
IRP I/O request packet
IrPHY IrDA Physical Layer Link Specification
IrPnP IrDA Plug and Play Extensions to IrLMP
IRQ interrupt request
IrTinyTP Infrared Tiny Transport Protocol
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
iSNS Internet Server Name Service
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet service provider
ISR interrupt service routine
ISV independent software vendor
ITU International Telecommunications Union
ITU-T International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization
JEITA Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
K kilobyte
Kbps kilobits per second
KCS Keyboard Controller Style
Kg kilogram
KMDF kernel-mode driver framework
KS kernel stream
LAN local area network
LAPM Link Access Protocol, Modem
LBA logical block addressing
LCD liquid crystal display
LCP Link Control Protocol
LFE low-frequency effects
LFX local effects
LLTD link layer topology discovery
LPC low pin count
LUN logical unit number
LUT look up table
LVDS low-voltage differential signaling
MAC Media Access Control
Mbps megabits per second
MCCS monitor control command set
MCI Multimedia Control Interface
MF multifunction
MFP multifunction printer
MFT master file table
MHz megahertz
MIB Management Information Base
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
mm millimeter
MMC multimedia commands
MO magneto-optic
MoM modem-on-motherboard
MPEG Motion Picture Expert Group
MPIO Multipath I/O
MR modem riser
ms millisecond
MSC most significant character
MSI message signaled interrupt
MTP Media Transfer Protocol
MTS multichannel television sound
MTU maximum transmission unit
MXC Media Center Extender
NABTS North American Basic Teletext Specification
NAK negative acknowledgment
NAND Not AND
NAT network address translation
NCQ mative command queuing
NDA non-disclosure agreement
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification
NIC network interface adapter
NS noise suppression
NTFS NT file system
NTSC National Television System Committee
NVRAM non-volatile random access memory
OCUR OpenCable unidirectional receivers
OEM original equipment manufacturer
OHCI Open Host Controller Interface
OID object identifier
OPK open product key
OPM output protection management
OSTA Optical Storage Technology Association
PAL phase alternation line
PATA parallel ATA
PAWS protection against wrapping sequence
PC personal computer
PCB printed circuit board
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCIe PCI Express
PCM pulse code modulation
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PD phase dual
PDL printer description language; page description language
PES packetized elementary stream
PHY physical layer
PID product identifier
PIMA Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association
PIN personal identification number
PIO programmed input/output
PM partition management; power management
PME power management event
PnP Plug and Play
POS point of service
POST power-on self test
POTS plain old telephone service
ppi points per inch
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PSH push
PSHED platform-specific hardware error driver
PSK product service key
PSTN public switched telephone network
PTP Picture Transfer Protocol
PU partition unit
PVP protected video path
PVR personal video recorder
PXE preboot execution environment
QAM quadrature amplitude modulation
QoS quality of service
qWAVE quality Windows audio video experience
RAID redundant array of independent disks
RAM random access memory
RBC reduced block command
RCA Radio Corporation of America
RDP Remote Desktop Protocol
REV revision
RF radio frequency
RFC request for comment
RGB red green blue
RNDIS Remote Network Driver Interface Specification
ROM read-only memory
RSS receive side scaling
RST reset
RTC real-time clock
s second
S/PDIF Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format
S/T pseudo-ternary
SAM SCSI architecture mode
SAN storage area network
SAP secondary audio program
SAS secure attention sequence; serial attached storage
SATA serial ATA
SBC SCSI block commands
SBP serial bus protocol
SCSI small computer system interface
SD secure digital
SDIO secure digital I/O
SDK software developers kit
SDP service discovery protocol; Sockets Direct Protocol
SECAM sequential color with memory
SFF small form factor
SID subsystem identifier
SIG special interest group
SIR serial infrared
SKU stock keeping unit
SMART self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology
SMBIOS system management BIOS
SMC SDSI media changer
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNR signal-to-noise
SP service pack
SPC SCSI primary commands
SPI SCSI parallel interface
SPID service profile identifier
SPP serial port profile
SRC sample rate conversion
sRGB standard red-green-blue
SRTM static root of trust for measurement
SSDP Simple Service Discovery Protocol
SSID service set identifier
STA station
STP Spanning Tree Protocol
SVID subsystem vendor ID
TCG Trusted Computer Group
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TDI transport driver interface
TIA Telecommunications Industries Association
TLV type length value
TMM Transient MultiMon
TOE TCP offload engine
TPL tested products list
TPM trusted platform module
TV television
UAA Universal Audio Architecture
UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter
UDF universal disk format
UDMA ultra-direct memory access
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UHCI Universal Host Controller Interface
UI user interface
UMA universal memory architecture
UMDF user-mode driver framework
UPnP universal Plug and Play
USB Universal Serial Bus
UX user experience
VA video acceleration
VBI vertical blanking interval
VBR variable bit rate
VC virtual channel
VCP Virtual Control Program Interface
VCR video cassette recorder
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VFIR very fast infrared
VGA video graphics array
VHF very high frequency
VID vendor identifier
VLAN virtual LAN
VMR video mixing renderer
VPD vital product data
Vrms volt root mean square
VSB vestigial side band
WC write-combined
WCN Windows Connect Now
WCS Windows color system
WDDM Windows Display Driver Model
WDF Windows Driver Foundation
WDK Windows Driver Kit
WDM Windows Driver Model
WDRT WDT resource table
WDT watchdog timer
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
WFA Wi-Fi Alliance
WGF Windows Graphics Foundation
WHCI wireless host controller interface
WHDC Windows Hardware and Driver Central
WHEA Windows Hardware Error Architecture
WHIIG Windows Hardware Instrumentation Implementation Guidelines
WHQL Windows Hardware Quality Labs
WIA Windows Image Acquisition
Wi-Fi wireless fidelity
Winqual Windows Quality Online Services
WinSAT Windows System Assessment Tool
WLAN wireless LAN
WMA Windows Media Audio
WME wireless multimedia extension
WMI Windows Management Instrumentation
WMM wireless multimedia
WMV Windows Media Video
WOL wake-on LAN
WPA Wi-Fi protected access
WPAN wireless personal area network
WPD Windows portable devices
WRE write cache enable
WS Web Services for Devices
WSD Web Services for Devices
XDDM Windows XP Display Driver Model
XPS XML Paper Specification
XUSB Xbox 360 Universal Serial Bus