AC

Autonomous chip

A/D

Analog to digital

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AG

Address generation

ALU

Arithmetic and logic unit

AMBA

Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture

ASIC

Application-specific integrated circuit

ASIP

Application-specific instruction processor

ASOC

Autonomous system-on-chip

AXI

Advanced eXtensible Interface

BC

Branch conditional

BIST

Built-in-self-test

BRAM

Block random access memory

BTB

Branch target buffer

CAD

Computer aided design

CBWA

Copy-back write allocate cache

CC

Condition codes

CFA

Color filter array

CGRA

Coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture

CIF

Common Intermediate Format

CISC

Complex instruction set computer

CLB

Configurable Logic Block

CMOS

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor

CORDIC

COordinate Rotation Digital Computer

CPI

Cycles per instruction

CPU

Central processing unit

DCT

Discrete Cosine Transform

DDR

Double data rate

DES

Data Encryption Standard

3DES

Triple Data Encryption Standard

DF

Data fetch

DMA

Direct memory access

DRAM

Dynamic random access memory

DSP

Digital signal processing (or processor)

DTMR

Design Target Miss Rates

ECC

Error correcting code

eDRAM

Embedded dynamic random access memory

EX

Execute

FIFO

First in first out

FIR

Finite impulse response

FO4

Fan-out of four

FP

Floating-point

FPGA

Field programmable gate array

FPR

Floating-point register

FPU

Floating-point unit

GB

Giga bytes, a billion (10⁹) bytes

GIF

Graphics interface

GPP

General-purpose processor

GPR

General-purpose register

GPS

Global Positioning System

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communications

HDTV

High definition television

HPC

High performance computing

IC

Integrated circuit

ICU

Interconnect interface unit

ID

Instruction decode

IF

Instruction fetch

ILP

Instruction-level parallelism

I/O

Input/output

IP

Intellectual property

IR

Instruction register

ISA

Instruction set architecture

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group (image compression standard)

Kb

Kilo bits, one thousand (10³) bits

KB

Kilo bytes, one thousand bytes

L1

Level 1 (for cache)

L2

Level 2 (for cache)

LE

Logic Element

LRU

Least recently used

L/S

Load-store

LSI

Large scale integration

LUT

Lookup table

Mb

Mega bits, one million (10⁶) bits

MB

Mega bytes, one million bytes

MEMS

Micro electro mechanical systems

MIMD

Multiple instruction streams, multiple data streams

MIPS

Million instructions per second

MOPS

Million operations per second

MOS

Metal oxide semiconductor

MPEG

Motion Picture Experts Group (video compression standard)

MTBF

Mean time between faults

MUX

Multiplexor

NOC

Network on chip

OCP

Open Core Protocol

OFDM

Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing

PAN

Personal area network

PCB

Printed circuit board

PLCC

Plastic leaded chip carrier

PROM

Programmable read only memory

QCIF

Quarter Common Intermediate Format

RAM

Random access memory

RAND

Random

RAW

Read-after-write

rbe

Register bit equivalent

RF

Radio frequency

RFID

Radio frequency identification

RISC

Reduced instruction set computer

R/M

Register-memory

ROM

Read only memory

RTL

Register transfer language

SAD

Sum of the absolute differences

SDRAM

Synchronous dynamic random access memory

SECDED

Single error correction, double error detection

SER

Soft error rate

SIA

Semiconductor Industry Association

SIMD

Single instruction stream, multiple data streams

SMT

Simultaneous multithreading

SOC

System on chip

SRAM

Static random access memory

TLB

Translation look-aside buffer

TMR

Triple modular redundancy

UART

Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter

UMTS

Universal mobile telecommunications system

UV

Ultraviolet

VCI

Virtual Component Interface

VLIW

Very long instruction word

VLSI

Very large scale integration

VPU

Vector processing unit

VR

Vector register

VSIA

Virtual Socket Interface Alliance

WAR

Write after read

WAW

Write after write

WB

Write back

WTNWA

Write-through cache, no write allocate