PPC-5xxx-9455 Panel PCPage 158LCD Liquid crystal display (LCD) is a flat, low-power display device thatconsists of two polarizing plates with a liquid crystal panel in between.LVDS Low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) is a dual-wire, high-speeddifferential electrical signaling system commonly used to connect LCDdisplays to a computer.POST The Power-on Self Test (POST) is the pre-boot actions the systemperforms when the system is turned-on.RAM Random Access Memory (RAM) is volatile memory that loses data whenpower is lost. RAM has very fast data transfer rates compared to otherstorage like hard drives.SATA Serial ATA (SATA) is a serial communications bus designed for datatransfers between storage devices and the computer chipsets. The SATAbus has transfer speeds up to 1.5 Gb/s and the SATA II bus has datatransfer speeds of up to 3.0 Gb/s.S.M.A.R.T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) refers toautomatic status checking technology implemented on hard disk drives.UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver-transmitter (UART) is responsible forasynchronous communications on the system and manages the system’sserial communication (COM) ports.UHCI The Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) specification is aregister-level interface description for USB 1.1 Host Controllers.USB The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an external bus standard forinterfacing devices. USB 1.1 supports 12 Mb/s data transfer rates andUSB 2.0 supports 480 Mb/s data transfer rates.VGA The Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a graphics display system developedby IBM.
