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Conventions
This section defines product-specific terminology, abbreviations, and other conven-
tions used throughout this manual.
Abbreviations
•
Binary Multiples
The abbreviations K, M, and G (kilo, mega, and giga) represent binary multiples
and have the following values.
For example:
•
Register Access
The abbreviations used to indicate the type of access to register fields and bits
have the following definitions:
IGN — Ignore
Register bits specified as IGN are ignored when written and are UNPRE-
DICTABLE when read if not otherwise specified.
MBZ — Must Be Zero
Software must never place a nonzero value in bits and fields specified as
MBZ. Reads return unpredictable values. Such fields are reserved for future
use.
RAO — Read As One
Register bits specified as RAO return a 1 when read.
RAZ — Read As Zero
Register bits specified as RAZ return a 0 when read.
K
=
2
10
(1024)
M
=
2
20
(1,048,576)
G
=
2
30
(1,073,741,824)
2KB
=
2 kilobytes
=
2
×
2
10
bytes
4MB
=
4 megabytes
=
4
×
2
20
bytes
8GB
=
8 gigabytes
=
8
×
2
30
bytes