Digital Systems Design with FPGAs and CPLDs

Abbreviations

A

AC alternating current

ADC analogue-to-digital converter

ALU arithmetic and logic unit

AM amplitude modulation

AMD advanced micro devices

AMS analogue and mixed-signal

AND logical AND operation on two or more digital signals

ANSI American National Standards Institute

AOI automatic optical inspection

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC application-specific integrated circuit

ASP analogue signal processor

ASSP application-specific standard product

ATA AT attachment

ATE AT equipment

ATPG AT program generation

AWG arbitrary waveform generator American wire gauge

AXI automatic X-ray inspection

B

BASIC Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BCD binary coded decimal

BGA ball grid array

BiCMOS bipolar ...