This document contains conventions for numeric values as follows.
This section defines the typographical convention used throughout this book. All hex numbers are followed by an “h.” Examples:
9A4Eh 0100h
All binary numbers are followed by a “b.” Examples:
0001 0101b 01b
Numbers without any suffix are decimal. When required for clarity, decimal numbers are followed by a “d.” The following examples each represent a decimal number:
16 255 256d 128d
All abbreviations for “bits” use lower case. For example:
2.5Gb/s = 2.5 Gigabits per second.
2Mb = 2 Megabits.
All references to “bytes” are specified in upper case. For example:
10MB/s = 10 Megabytes per second.
2KB = 2 Kilobytes.
Other designations:
“lsb” refers to the least-significant bit.
“LSB” refers to the least-signicant byte.
“msb” refers to the most-significant bit.
“MSB” refers to the most-significant byte.
In many cases, bit fields are documented as [15:8], with this example referring to bits 8 through 15.