Access Bus {A 4-wire serial bus using the I2C bus as the electrical hardware interface. The maximum speed is 100kbps over a maximum cable length of 10 meters.}

Acquisition Bus {Generic term not a bus}

ADB Bus {[Apple Desktop Bus] was a serial bus used by Apple computer to drive the mouse and keyboard. The 4-wire cable had a maximum data rate was 125kbps. The ADB bus was replaced by Firewire and is OBSOLETE.}

AdvancedTCA Bus {ATCA Description, Chassis/Backplane based Telecommunications bus.}

AES/EBU {AES/EUB [http://www.ebu.ch], [Audio Engineering Society/European Broadcasting Union] is one of the common names for a digital audio transfer standard The standard is also known as XLR because the AES/EBU digital interface is usually implemented using 3-Pin XLR connectors, which happens to be the same type connector used in a professional microphone. One cable carries both left and right-channel audio data. AES/EBU is an alternative to the S/PDIF standard.}

AFDX {Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet}

AGP Bus {The Accelerated Graphics Port bus is used as a chip-to-chip Computer Local Video Bus. The AGP bus was derived from the Parallel PCI bus with a few additional signals. AGP 8x uses a 533MHz clock with 32 bytes/clock, and has a Bandwidth of 2.1GB/s [0.8V signal swing]. The AGP bus was replaced by the PCIe Bus.}

AMBA {SoC Bus, an IP Core Bus}

AMC Bus {Advanced Mezzanine Card; a Mezzanine Bus/board format}

AMR Bus {Audio/Modem Riser. Specification defines a hardware scalable OEM PC mother board riser board and interface, which supports both audio and modem. An MR slot will provide a Modem function, while an AMR slot will provide both an Audio and Modem function}

Apple Computer Buses {Apple, Macintosh or MAC Computer Buses}

ASI {Advanced Switching Interconnect, Fabic}

ASCB {Avionics Standard Communications Bus}

ATA Bus {IDE/ATA Personal Computer [Parallel; PATA] cable Bus used for Hard drives, Floppy and CD drives. Top bus speed is 133MBytes/sec over an 18 inch Parallel cable. IDE: [Integrated Drive Electronics], ATA: [Advanced Technology Attachment]. ATA is being replaced by the Serial ATA bus which uses 4-wires instead of 40.}

ATM Bus {Asynchronous Transfer Mode [ATM] uses Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH), DS-3/E3 as the physical medium}

AUI {Attachment Unit Interface, Ethernet, on the Apple Computer AUI Pinout}

Aurora {SoC Bus, an IP Core Bus}

Automotive Bus's {MOST Bus, J1850, D2B, CanBus, IDB1394, FlexRay, OBDII ..}

Avionics Bus's {ARINC, SpaceWire, MIL-STD-1553, MIL-STD-1760, MIL-STD-1776..}

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An alphabetic listing of released interface buses. Primarily the links point to pages that describe the physical and electrical interfaces. Interface Bus protocols are normally not addressed.