A
Ampère, unit of electrical current
AC
alternating current
ACELP
Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction
AMC
Advanced Mezzanine Card, a mezzanine card standard for MTCA and ATCA (PICMG). Refer to www.picmg.org for details.
AMC.0
AMC base specification by PICMG - defines a mezzanine building block approach for the addition of crucial functionality to a PICMG 3.0 carrier card available from a number of third party suppliers. Refer to www.picmg.org for details.
AMC.1
PCIe specification for AMC by PICMG - defines port usage for PCI Express and Advanced Switching environments on AMC.0. Refer to www.picmg.org for details.
AMC.2
Ethernet specification for AMC by PICMG - defines port usage for Ethernet on AMC.0. Refer to www.picmg.org for details.
AMC.3
stoarage specification for AMC by PICMG - defines port usage for Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA on AMC.0. Refer to www.picmg.org for details.
AMC.4
SRIO specification for AMC by PICMG - defines port usage for Serial RapidIO on AMC.0. Refer to www.picmg.org for details.
AMP
when used with multi-core CPUs: asymmetric multi-processing
AMR
aka AMR-NB (Adaptive MultiRate Narrow Band), audio compression format for wireless applications, principally an extension to EFR
AMR-WB
Adaptive MultiRate Wide Band, audio compression format for mobile applications, specified as TS 26.171 (ETSI/3GPP) und G.722.2 (ITU-T)
ANSI
American National Standards Institute (http://www.ansi.org).
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol
ATCA
Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture (PICMG). Refer to www.picmg.org for details.