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1.9 Acronyms
Table 2. Acronyms
Acronym Comment
AHB Advanced High-performance bus, part of [AMBA]
AMBA Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture
AMP See ASMP
APB Advanced Peripheral Bus, part of [AMBA]
ASMP Asymmetric Multi-Processing (in the context of this document: different OS instances run-
ning on own processor cores)
BCH Bose-Hocquenghem-Chaudhuri, class of error-correcting codes
CAN Controller Area Network, bus standard
CPU Central Processing Unit, used to refer to one LEON4 processor core.
DCL Debug Communication Link. Provides a bridge between an external interface and on-chip
AHB bus.
DDR Double Data Rate
DMA Direct Memory Access
DSU Debug Support Unit
EDAC Error Detection and Correction
EDCL Ethernet Debug Communication Link
FIFO First-In-First-Out, refers to buffer type
FPU Floating Point Unit
Gb
Gigabit, 10
9
bits
GB
Gigabyte, 10
9
bytes
GiB
Gibibyte, gigabinary byte, 2
30
bytes, unit defined in IEEE 1541-200
I/O Input/Output
IP, IPv4 Internet Protocol (version 4)
ISR Interrupt Service Routine
JTAG Joint Test Action Group (developer of IEEE Standard 1149.1-1990)
kB
Kilobyte, 10
3
bytes
KiB
Kibibyte, 2
10
bytes, unit defined in IEEE 1541-2002
L2 Level-2, used in L2 cache abbreviation
MAC Media Access Controller
Mb, Mbit
Megabit, 10
6
bits
MB, Mbyte
Megabyte, 10
6
bytes
MiB
Mebibyte, 2
20
bytes, unit defined in IEEE 1541-2002
OS Operating System
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory. In this document used to signify boot-PROM.
RAM Random Access Memory
RMAP Remote Memory Access Protocol
SEE Single Event Effects
SEL/SEU/SET Single Event Latchup/Upset/Transient