Glossary

AHB: Advanced High-performance Bus. Part of the AMBA specification for interconnectivity, the AHB is a single-cycle bus to which you normally attach bus masters, such as processor cores, DSP engines, DMA engines, or memory.

AMBA: Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture. The AMBA specification provides a bus framework around which systems can be built, and it also defines the manner in which processors and peripherals communicate in a system.

APB: Advanced Peripheral Bus. Part of the AMBA specification, the APB is the bus to which you normally attach peripherals or slower devices in the system.

API: Application Programming Interface. Often APIs come in the form of a library that includes routines for accessing hardware or services ...

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