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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