Hardware mixing — is a performance feature of computer audio hardware which enables sound cards to receive multiple audio streams and play them all at the same time. Hardware mixing improves performance by offloading audio mixing operations from the CPU and… … Wikipedia
Hardware emulation — is the process of imitating the behavior of one or more pieces of hardware (typically a system under design) with another piece of hardware, typically a special purpose emulation system. The goal is normally debugging of the system being designed … Wikipedia
Hardware-Firewall — Eine externe (Netzwerk oder Hardware ) Firewall (von engl. firewall [ˈfaɪəwɔːl] „die Brandwand“) stellt eine kontrollierte Verbindung zwischen zwei Netzen her. Das könnten z. B. ein privates Netz (LAN) und das Internet (WAN) sein; möglich ist… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Hardware Security Module — A Hardware Security Module (often abbreviated to HSM) is a physical device in form of a plug in card or an external security device that can be attached to general purpose computer and servers.The goals of an HSM are the: (a) secure generation,… … Wikipedia
DirectX Video Acceleration — (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be hardware accelerated. The pipeline allows certain CPU intensive operations such as iDCT, motion compensation and… … Wikipedia
XFree86 Acceleration Architecture — In the X Window System, XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) is a driver architecture to make a video card s 2D hardware acceleration available to the X server. It was written by Harm Hanemaayer in 1996 and first released in XFree86 version… … Wikipedia
Graphics hardware and FOSS — Free and open source software (FOSS) can be used with a variety of graphics hardware, largely via the X.Org project. There are varying levels of support, ranging from completely working drivers to unsupported hardware. Some manufacturers do not… … Wikipedia
Video Acceleration API — (VA API) is a software API specification which provides access to graphics hardware (GPU) acceleration for video processing. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, subpicture blending and rendering.VA API is meant to some day replace… … Wikipedia
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server — Infobox Software name = Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server caption = Screenshot of ISA 2004 in wizard view developer = Microsoft latest release version = [http://technet.microsoft.com/en us/bb738392.aspx Microsoft Internet… … Wikipedia
SSL acceleration — is a method of offloading the processor intensive public key encryption algorithms involved in SSL transactions to a hardware accelerator. Typically, this is a separate card that plugs into a PCI slot in a computer that contains one or more co… … Wikipedia
