Publication No. SBC329-HRM/1
About This Manual 3
About This Manual
Conventions
Notices
This manual may use the following types of notice:
WARNING
Warnings alert you to the risk of severe personal injury.
CAUTION
Cautions alert you to system danger or loss of data.
NOTE
Notes call attention to important features or instructions.
TIP
Tips give guidance on procedures that may be tackled in several ways.
LINK
Links take you to other documents or websites. The purple link color may also be used within a
body of text or paragraph to indicate a link (or hyperlink) to a different part of the same
document.
Numbers
All numbers are expressed in decimal, except addresses and memory or register
data, which are expressed in hexadecimal. Where confusion may occur, decimal
numbers have a “D” subscript and binary numbers have a “b” subscript. The prefix
“0x” shows a hexadecimal number, following the ‘C’ programming language
convention. Thus:
One dozen = 12
D
= 0x0C = 1100
b
The multipliers “k”, “M” and “G” have their conventional scientific and engineering
meanings of *10
3
, *10
6
and *10
9
respectively. The only exception to this is in the
description of the size of memory areas, when “K”, “M” and “G” mean *
2
10
, *2
20
and
*2
30
respectively.
NOTE
When describing transfer rates, “k”, “M” and “G” mean *10
3
, *10
6
and *10
9
not
*2
10
, *2
20
and *2
30
.
Multiple bit fields are numbered from 0 to n, where 0 is the LSB and n is the MSB.
