Glossaries

3D Graphics Three Dimensional Graphics
AAL Address Alignment Logic
AI Artificial Intelligence
ALU Arithmetic and Logic Unit
API Application Programming Interfaces
ARM Advanced RISC Machine; a popular embedded processor
ARM9 ARM processor with ARM v5instuction set
ARM11 ARM processor with ARM v6 instruction set
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DVFS Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
HSR Hidden Surface Removal
HW Hardware
IP Intellectual Property
ISP Image Signal Processor
KAIST Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
LOD Level of Detail
MIPS Million Instructions per Second
NoC Network-on-Chip
OpenGL Open Graphics Library
PC Personal Computer
PIM Personal Information Management
RAMP RAM + Processor; a GPU architecture developed by KAIST
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RTL Register Transfer Level
SERDES SERializer and DESerializer
SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data
SoC System-on-a-Chip
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SW Software
TBR Tile Based Rendering
TnL Transform and Lighting
UML Unified Modeling Language
VSLI Very Large Scaled Integration

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