Glossary

abstraction is the act or an instance of abstracting or taking away; an abstract or visionary idea

application layer the network layer closest to the user’s application

basic block is a maximal sequence of sequential instructions with a Single Entry and Single Exit (SESE) point

bitgen the process after routing which takes a placed and routed netlist and generates a configuration file known as a bitstream that will be used to configure the FPGA device

bitstream is the file that includes a header and frames of configuration information needed to set the SRAM cells of the FPGA in order to set the functionality of the device

block a hard block is a core that has been implemented in CMOS transistors, and a soft block is a core that has ...

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