Term
AAL
ATM adaptation layer
ABR
Availabe bit rate
ACR
Allowed cell rate
ALU
Arithmetic logic unit
APC
ATM pace control
ATM
Asynchronous transfer mode
BD
Buffer descriptor
BIST
Built-in self test
BT
Burst tolerance
CBR
Constant bit rate
CEPT
Conference des administrations Europeanes des Postes et Telecommunications (European
Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations).
C/I
Condition/indication channel used in the GCI protocol
CLP
Cell loss priority
CP
Communications processor
CP-CS
Common part convergence sublayer
CPM
Communications processor module
CPS
Cells per slot
CSMA
Carrier sense multiple access
CSMA/CD
Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
DMA
Direct memory access
DPLL
Digital phase-locked loop
DPR
Dual-port RAM
DRAM
Dynamic random access memory
DSISR
Register used for determining the source of a DSI exception
EA
Effective address
EEST
Enhanced Ethernet serial transceiver
EPROM
Erasable programmable read-only memory
FBP
Free buffer pool
FIFO
First-in-Þrst-out (buffer)
GCI
General circuit interface
GCRA
Generic cell rate algorithm (leaky bucket)
GPCM
General-purpose chip-select machine
MOTOROLA
Table vii. Acronyms and Abbreviated Terms
Part IV. Communications Processor Module
Part IV. Communications Processor Module
Meaning
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