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71Embedded system — Picture of the internals of an ADSL modem/router. A modern example of an embedded system. Labelled parts include a microprocessor (4), RAM (6), and flash memory (7). An embedded system is a computer system designed to do one or a few dedicated… …
72Blade server — IBM HS20 blade server. Two bays for 2.5 (6.4 cm) SCSI hard drives appear in the upper left area of the image. A blade server is a stripped down server computer with a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy …
73Xbox 360 — Xbox 360 …
74Flexible Architecture for Simulation and Testing — The FAST Project is a new hybrid hardware prototyping platform enabled by integrating a variety of hardware components on a printed circuit board (PCB) to implement Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) or Multiprocessor (MP) systems. The Flexible… …
75Direct memory access — (DMA) is a feature of modern computers that allows certain hardware subsystems within the computer to access system memory independently of the central processing unit (CPU). Without DMA, the CPU using programmed input/output is typically fully… …
76Activated carbon — Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, activated coal or carbo activatus, is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely porous and thus to have a very large surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions …
77Transputer — A transputer was a pioneering concurrent computing microprocessor design of the 1980s from INMOS, a British semiconductor company based in Bristol. [ Allen Kent, James G. Williams (eds.) (1998) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology ,… …
78TCP Offload Engine — or TOE is a technology used in network interface cards to offload processing of the entire TCP/IP stack to the network controller. It is primarily used with high speed network interfaces, such as gigabit Ethernet and 10 gigabit Ethernet, where… …
79Xbox 360 hardware — The hardware of the Xbox 360 includes several parts, both internally in the console itself and as separate pieces of kit, or accessories. Central processing unit The Xbox 360 takes a new approach to hardware compared to its predecessor. The CPU,… …
80Booting — This article is about bootstrapping operating systems. For the general concept, see Bootstrapping. For other uses, see Booting (disambiguation). In computing, booting (also known as booting up) is a process that begins when a user turns on a… …
