July 2025
Beginner
528 pages
13h 18m
English
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Glossary of Acronyms
- AAPCS (Procedure Call Standard for Arm Architecture)
- A set of conventions that defines register usage, parameter passing and stack alignment during function calls, ensuring consistency across different parts of programs in ARM-based systems.
- ABI (Application Binary Interface)
- A specification that defines how program modules and components interact at the binary level, specifying data type sizes, calling conventions, register usage, system call conventions and binary object formats to ensure compatibility across different compilers and programming languages.
- ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter)
- A device or circuit that converts an analog signal into a digital signal.
- AEABI (ARM Embedded Application Binary Interface)
- A specialized form of ABI for embedded software on Arm platforms.
- AHB (Advanced High-performance Bus)
- A high-speed bus defined within AMBA, used for communication between the CPU, memory and high-speed peripherals in a microcontroller.
- ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit)
- A digital circuit within a processor that performs arithmetic and logical operations.
- AM0 (Abstract Microcontroller with Cortex-M0 processor)
- An abstract microcontroller defined for the purpose of learning microcontroller organization; named AM0 for ease of reference.
- AMBA (Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture)
- A set of protocols for communication between the functional blocks (CPU, memory, peripherals etc.) in Arm-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
- APB (Advanced Peripheral Bus) ...
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