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Appendix C
SWPU177N – December 2009 – Revised November 2010
Glossary
Numerical
2D— Two dimensional
3D— Three dimensional
3GPP— 3rd Generation Partnership Project
A
ABS— Absolute value
ADC— Analog-to-digital converter/conversion
AEW— Adaptive multirate
AHB— Advanced high-performance bus
AMR— Adaptive multirate; also Audio modem riser: An Intel specification that defines a new architecture
for the design of motherboards.
APB— Advanced peripheral bus
APE— Applicative processor engine
API— Application programming interface; also ARM port interface
ARAU— Auxiliary register arithmetic unit
ARGB— Alpha, red, green, blue
ASIC— Application-specific integrated circuit: A chip built for a specific application. In the context of this
document, ASIC refers to the FPGA that resides on the EVM board.
ASCII— American standard code for information
ATR— Answer to reset
AVC— Advanced video coding (MPEG4 - Part 10 also known as H264)
AXI— Advanced extensible interface
B
BB— Busy bus
BCD— Binary-coded decimal: A representation of decimal digits (0–9) using a nibble that uses a certain
number of bits. For example, using 4 bits, two BCDs can be packed into 1 byte.
BGA— Ball grid array
BGAPTS— Band gap voltage and temperature sensor
BGT— Block guard time
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