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Acronyms
Table 2.
Acronyms
Acronym
Comment
AHB
Advanced High-performance bus, part of [AMBA]
AMBA
Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture
APB
Advanced Peripheral Bus, part of [AMBA]
BCH
Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem, class of error-correcting codes
CAN
Controller Area Network, bus standard
CPU
Central Processing Unit, used to refer to one LEON4 processor core.
DMA
Direct Memory Access
DSU
Debug Support Unit
EDAC
Error Detection and Correction
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
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
Mb, Mbit
Megabit, 10
6
bits
MB, Mbyte
Megabyte, 10
6
bytes
MiB
Mebibyte, 2
20
bytes, unit defined in IEEE 1541-2002
PROM
Programmable Read Only Memory
RAM
Random Access Memory
SEE
Single Event Effects
SEL/SEU/
SET
Single Event Latchup/Upset/Transient
SPARC
Scalable Processor ARChitecture
SW
Software
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter