Acronyms and Abbreviations

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Acronyms and Abbreviations A AC

Alternating Current

ACK

Acknowledge

A/D

Analog-to-Digital

ADC

Analog-to-Digital Converter

ALU

Arithmetic Logic Unit

AM

Amplitude Modulation

AMP

Ampere

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

AOT

Ahead-of-Time

API

Application Programming Interface

ARIB-BML

Association of Radio Industries and Business of Japan

AS

Address Strobe

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Automated Teller Machine

ATSC

Advanced Television Standards Committee

ATVEF

Advanced Television Enhancement Forum

B BDM

Background Debug Mode

BER

Bit Error Rate

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System

BML

Broadcast Markup Language

BOM

Bill of Materials

bps

Bits per Second

BSP

Board Support Package

BSS

“Block Started by Symbol,” “Block Storage Segment,” “Blank Storage Space,” …

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C CAD

Computer-Aided Design

CAN

Controller Area Network

CAS

Column Address Select

CASE

Computer-Aided Software Engineering

CBIC

Cell-Based IC or Cell-Based ASIC

CDC

Connected Device Configuration

CEA

Consumer Electronics Association

CEN

European Committee for Standardization

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computer

CLDC

Connected Limited Device Configuration

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Silicon

COFF

Common Object File Format

CPLD

Complex Programmable Logic Device

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CRT

Cathode Ray Tube

CTS

Clear-to-Send

D DAC

Digital-to-Analog Converter

DAG

Data Address Generator

DASE

Digital TV Applications Software Environment

DAVIC

Digital Audio Visual Council

dB

Decibel

DC

Direct Current

D-Cache

Data Cache

DCE

Data Communications Equipment

Demux

Demultiplexor

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIMM

Dual Inline Memory Module

DIP

Dual Inline Package

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DNS

Domain Name Server, Domain Name System, Domain Name Service

DoD

Department of Defense

Acronyms and Abbreviations  615 DPRAM

Dual Port RAM

DRAM

Dynamic Random Access Memory

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSP

Digital Signal Processor

DTE

Data Terminal Equipment

DTVIA

Digital Television Industrial Alliance of China

DVB

Digital Video Broadcasting

E EDA

Electronic Design Automation

EDF

Earliest Deadline First

EDO RAM

Extended Data Out Random Access Memory

EEMBC

Embedded Microprocessor Benchmarking Consortium

EEPROM

Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EIA

Electronic Industries Alliance

ELF

Extensible Linker Format

EMI

Electromagnetic Interference

EPROM

Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

ESD

Electrostatic Discharge

EU

European Union

F FAT

File Allocation Table

FCFS

First Come First Served

FDA

Food and Drug Administration (USA)

FDMA

Frequency Division Multiple Access

FET

Field-Effect Transistor

FFS

Flash File System

FIFO

First In First Out

FM

Frequency Modulation

FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Array

FPU

Floating-Point Unit

FSM

Finite-State Machine

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

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G GB

Gigabyte

Gbit

Gigabit

GCC

GNU C Compiler

GDB

GNU Debugger

GHz

Gigahertz

GND

Ground

GPS

Global Positioning System

GUI

Graphical User Interface

H HAVi

Home Audio/Video Interoperability

HDL

Hardware Description Language

HL7

Health Level Seven

HLDA

Hold Acknowledge

HLL

High-level Language

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HTTP

HyperText Transport Protocol

Hz

Hertz

IC

Integrated Circuit

I 2

IC

Inter-Integrated Circuit Bus

I-Cache

Instruction Cache

ICE

In-Circuit Emulator

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

IEC

International Engineering Consortium

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IGMP

Internet Group Management Protocol

INT

Interrupt

I/O

Input/Output

IP

Internet Protocol

Acronyms and Abbreviations  617 IPC

Interprocess Communication

IR

Infrared

IRQ

Interrupt ReQuest

ISA

Instruction Set Architecture

ISA Bus

Industry Standard Architecture Bus

ISO

International Standards Organization

ISP

In-System Programming

ISR

Interrupt Service Routine

ISS

Instruction Set Simulator

ITU

International Telecommunication Union

JEDEC

JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, formerly known as the Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council

JIT

Just-in-Time

J2ME

Java 2 MicroEdition

JTAG

Joint Test Access Group

JVM

Java Virtual Machine

J

K kB

Kilobyte

kbit

Kilobit

kbps

Kilobits per Second

kHz

kilohertz

KVM

K Virtual Machine

L LA

Logic Analyzer

LAN

Local Area Network

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display

LED

Light-Emitting Diode

LIFO

Last In First Out

LSb

Least Significant Bit

LSB

Least Significant Byte

LSI

Large-Scale Integration

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M mΩ

Milliohm

MΩ

Megaohm

MAN

Metropolitan Area Network

MCU

Microcontroller

MHP

Multimedia Home Platform

MIDP

Mobile Information Device Profile

MIPS

Millions of Instructions per Second, Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages

MMU

Memory Management Unit

MOSFET

Metal Oxide Silicon Field-Effect Transistor

MPSD

Modular Port Scan Device

MPU

Microprocessor

MSb

Most Significant Bit

MSB

Most Significant Byte

MSI

Medium-Scale Integration

MTU

Maximum Transfer Unit

MUTEX

Mutual Exclusion

N ns

Nanosecond

NAK

NotAcKnowledged

NAT

Network Address Translation

NCCLS

National Committee For Clinical Laboratory Standards

NEMA

National Electrical Manufacturers Association

NFS

Network File System

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NMI

Non-Maskable Interrupt

NTSC

National Television Standards Committee

NVRAM

Non-Volatile Random Access Memory

O OCAP

Open Cable Application Forum

OCD

On-Chip Debugging

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

Acronyms and Abbreviations  619 OO

Object Oriented

OOP

Object Oriented Programming

OS

Operating System

OSGi

Open Systems Gateway Initiative

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection

OTP

One-Time Programmable

P PAL

Programmable Array Logic, Phase Alternating Line

PAN

Personal Area Network

PC

Personal Computer

PCB

Printed Circuit Board, Process Control Block

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCP

Priority Ceiling Protocol

PDA

Personal Data Assistant

PDU

Protocol Data Unit

PE

Presentation Engine, Processing Element

PID

Proportional Integral Derivative

PIO

Parallel Input/Output

PIP

Priority Inheritance Protocol, Picture-In-Picture

PLC

Programmable Logic Controller, Program Location Counter

PLD

Programmable Logic Device

PLL

Phase Locked Loop

POSIX

Portable Operating System Interface X

POTS

Plain Old Telephone Service

PPC

PowerPC

PPM

Parts Per Million

PPP

Point-to-Point Portocol

PROM

Programmable Read-Only Memory

PSK

Phase Shift Keying

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

PTE

Process Table Entry

PWM

Pulse Width Modulation

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Q QA

Quality Assurance

R RAM

Random Access Memory

RARP

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RAS

Row Address Select

RF

Radiofrequency

RFC

Request for Comments

RFI

Radiofrequency Interference

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

RMA

Rate Monotonic Algorithm

RMS

Root Mean Square, Rate Monotonic Scheduling

ROM

Read-Only Memory

RPM

Revolutions per Minute

RPU

Reconfigurable Processing Unit

RTC

Real-Time Clock

RTOS

Real-Time Operating System

RTS

Request to Send

RTSJ

Real Time Specification for Java

R/W

Read/Write

S SBC

Single-Board Computer

SCC

Serial Communications Controller

SECAM

Système Électronique pour Couleur avec Mémoire

SEI

Software Engineering Institute

SIMM

Single Inline Memory Module

SIO

Serial Input/Output

SLD

Source Level Debugger

SLIP

Serial Line Internet Protocol

SMPTE

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

SMT

Surface Mount

Acronyms and Abbreviations  621 SNAP

Scalable Node Address Protocol

SNR

Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SoC

System — On-Chip

SOIC

Small Outline Integrated Circuit

SPDT

Single Pole Double Throw

SPI

Serial Peripheral Interface

SPST

Single Pole Single Throw

SRAM

Static Random Access Memory

SSB

Single Sideband Modulation

SSI

Small-Scale Integration

T TC

Technical Committee

TCB

Task Control Block

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TDM

Time Division Multiplexing

TDMA

Time Division Multiple Access

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TLB

Translation Lookaside Buffer

TTL

Transistor–Transistor Logic

U UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

UDM

Universal Design Methodology

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

ULSI

Ultra-Large-Scale Integration

UML

Universal Modeling Language

UPS

Uninterruptible Power Supply

USA

United States of America

USART

Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

USB

Universal Serial Bus

UTP

Untwisted Pair

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V VHDL

Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Design Language

VLIW

Very-Long Instruction Word

VLSI

Very-Large-Scale Integration

VME

Versa Module Eurocard

VoIP

Voice Over Internet Protocol

VPN

Virtual Private Network

W WAN

Wide Area Network

WAT

Way-Ahead-of-Time

WDT

Watchdog Timer

WLAN

Wireless Local Area Network

WML

Wireless Markup Language

WOM

Write-Only Memory

X XCVR

Transceiver

XHTML

eXtensible HyperText Markup Language

XML

eXtensible Markup Language