Credit: ccarlstead CC-BY 2.0. Playing cards developed their four-suit design in the 1480s in France. By the late 1800s, factories mass-produced standard English playing cards that featured diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades, a design that prevails as of September 2014. Older cards were based on Latin suits of cups, swords, coins and rods.
Definition - What does Spread Spectrum mean? Spread spectrum is a technique used for transmitting radio or telecommunications signals. The term refers to the practice of spreading the transmitted signal to occupy the frequency spectrum available for transmission.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. Spread Spectrum Clocking is a way to lower electromagnetic interference or EMI. This is important for storage solutions that are required to pass FCC and other agency certifications. Today, some Serial ATA disk drives implement SSC, some allow you to turn this feature on/off, and some do not implement SSC; it is anticipated that all will implement this feature in the near future.