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i.MX53 System Development User’s Guide, Rev. 1
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IrDA Infrared Data Association—a nonprofit organization whose goal is to develop globally adopted specifications
for infrared wireless communication.
ISR Interrupt Service Routine.
JTAG JTAG (IEEE Standard 1149.1) A standard specifying how to control and monitor the pins of compliant
devices on a printed circuit board.
Kill Abort a memory access.
KPP KeyPad Port—a 16-bit peripheral that can be used as a keypad matrix interface or as general purpose
input/output (I/O).
line Refers to a unit of information in the cache that is associated with a tag.
LRU Least Recently Used—a policy for line replacement in the cache.
MMU Memory Management Unit—a component responsible for memory protection and address translation.
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group—an ISO committee that generates standards for digital video compression
and audio. It is also the name of the algorithms used to compress moving pictures and video.
MPEG standards There are several standards of compression for moving pictures and video.
MPEG-1 is optimized for CD-ROM and is the basis for MP3.
MPEG-2 is defined for broadcast quality video in applications such as digital television set-top boxes and
DVD.
MPEG-3 was merged into MPEG-2.
MPEG-4 is a standard for low-bandwidth video telephony and multimedia on the World-Wide Web.
MQSPI Multiple Queue Serial Peripheral Interface—used to perform serial programming operations necessary to
configure radio subsystems and selected peripherals.
MSHC Memory Stick Host Controller
NAND Flash Flash ROM technology—NAND Flash architecture is one of two flash technologies (the other being NOR)
used in memory cards such as the Compact Flash cards. NAND is best suited to flash devices requiring high
capacity data storage. NAND flash devices offer storage space up to 512-Mbyte and offer faster erase, write,
and read capabilities over NOR architecture.
NOR Flash See NAND Flash.
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association—a multi-company organization that has
developed a standard for small, credit card-sized devices, called PC Cards. There are three types of
PCMCIA cards that have the same rectangular size (85.6 by 54 millimeters), but different widths.
Physical address The address by which the memory in the system is physically accessed.
PLL Phase Locked Loop—an electronic circuit controlling an oscillator so that it maintains a constant phase
angle (a lock) on the frequency of an input, or reference, signal.
RAM Random Access Memory
RAM path Path within ROM bootstrap leading to the downloading and the execution of a RAM application
RGB The RGB color model is based on the additive model in which Red, Green, and Blue light are combined in
various ways to create other colors. The abbreviation RGB come from the three primary colors in additive
light models.
Definitions and Acronyms (continued)
Term Definition