Terms and Abbreviations

Abbreviation Meaning
ADK AMBA Design Kit
AHB Advanced High-Performance Bus
AHB-AP AHB Access Port
AMBA Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture
APB Advanced Peripheral Bus
ARM ARM ARM Architecture Reference Manual
ASIC Application-specific integrated circuit
ATB Advanced Trace Bus
BE8 Byte-invariant big endian mode
CMSIS Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard
CPI Cycles per instruction
CPU Central processing unit
CS3 CodeSourcery Common Start-up Code Sequence
DAP Debug Access Port
DSP Digital Signal Processor/Digital Signal Processing
DWT Data Watchpoint and Trace unit
EABI/ABI Embedded application binary interface
ETM Embedded Trace Macrocell
FPB Flash Patch and Breakpoint unit ...

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