Terminology And Conventions; List Of Acronyms - Intel IXP45X Developer's Manual

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Terminology and Conventions

This section explains the naming conventions and the terminology used in the
document. Common acronyms are defined in
Table 1. List of Acronyms (Sheet 1 of 4)
Acronym
AALx
ADSL
AES
AHB
ALU
AMBA
APB
API
AQM
ASCII
ATM
BERT
BFA
BIU
Bps
bps
BSD
BSP
BTB
CBR
CPE
CPID
CPU
CRC
DDRI SDRAM
DES
DMA
DRAM
DSA
DSL
DSLAM
DSP
E1
EMI
FCS
FIFO
FRAM
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ATM Adaptation Layer x (0, 2, 5)
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Advanced Encryption Standard
Advanced High-Performance Bus
Arithmetic Logic Unit
Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture
Advanced Peripheral Bus
Application Programming Interface
AHB Queue Manager
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Bit-Error Rate Test
Basic Frame Alignment
Bus Interface Unit
Bytes per second
Bits per second
Berkeley Software Design
Board-Support Package
Branch Target Buffer
Constant Bit Rate
Customer Premise Equipment
Connection Point Identifier
Central Processing Unit
Cyclical Redundancy Check
Double-Data Rate SDRAM, Version 1 (266 MHz)
Data-Encryption Standard
Direct Memory Access
Dynamic, Random-Access Memory
Digital Signature Algorithm
Digital Subscriber Line
Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
Digital Signal Processor
Euro 1 trunk line (2.048 Mbps)
Electro-Magnetic Interference
Frame-Check Sequence
First-In, First-Out
Fixed Random Access Memory
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