NXP Semiconductors i.MX8 QM - Related Documentation; Conventions; Acronyms and Abbreviations

• High Speed Signal Propagation- Advanced Black Magic - Howard W. Johnson & Martin Graham - (Prentice Hall) - ISBN
0-13-084408-X
• High Speed Digital System Design- A handbook of Interconnect Theory and Practice - Hall, Hall and McCall (Wiley
Interscience 2000) - ISBN 0-36090-2
• Signal Integrity Issues and Printed Circuit Design - Doug Brooks (Prentice Hall) ISBN 0-13-141884-X
• PCB Design for Real-World EMI Control - Bruce R. Archambeault (Kluwer Academic Publishers Group) - ISBN
1-4020-7130-2
• Digital Design for Interference Specifications - A Practical Handbook for EMI Suppression -David L. Terrell & R. Kenneth
Keenan (Newnes Publishing) - ISBN 0-7506-7282-X
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Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering- Henry Ott (First Edition - John Wiley and Sons) - ISBN 0-471-85068-3
• Introduction to Electromagnetic Compatibility - Clayton R. Paul (John Wiley and Sons) - ISBN 978-0-470-18930-6
•
Grounding & Shielding Techniques - Ralph Morrison (Fifth Edition - John Wiley & Sons) - ISBN 0-471-24518-6
• EMC for Product Engineers - Tim Williams (Newnes Publishing) - ISBN 0-7506- 2466-3
1.4 Related documentation
NXP documentation is available from the sources listed on the back page of this guide.
Additional literature is published as new NXP products become available. For a current list of documentation, see nxp.com.
1.5 Conventions
This document uses the following notational conventions:
Courier Used to indicate commands, command parameters, code examples, and file and directory names.
Italics Italics indicates command or function parameters.
Bold Function names are written in bold.
cleared/set When a bit takes the value of zero, it is said to be cleared; when it takes a value of one, it is said to be set.
mnemonics Instruction mnemonics are shown in lowercase bold. book titles in text are set in italics.
sig_name Internal signals are written in all lowercase.
nnnn nnnnh Denotes a hexadecimal number.
0b Denotes a binary number.
rA, rB Instruction syntax used to identify a source GPR.
rD Instruction syntax used to identify a destination GPR.
REG[FIELD] Abbreviations for registers are shown in uppercase text. Specific bits, fields, or ranges appear in brackets. For
example, MSR[LE] refers to the little-endian mode enable bit in the machine state register.
x In some contexts, such as signal encodings, an unitalicized “x” indicates a do not care.
x An italicized “ x ” indicates an alphanumeric variable.
n, m An italicized “ n ” indicates a numeric variable.
In this guide, notations for all logical, bit-wise, arithmetic, comparison, and assignment operations follow C Language conventions.
1.6 Acronyms and abbreviations
Table 1 defines the acronyms and abbreviations used in this document.
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