The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M3

Terms and Abbreviations

Abbreviation

Meaning

ADK

AMBA Design Kit

AHB

Advanced High-Performance Bus

AHB-AP

AHB Access Port

AMBA

Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture

APB

Advanced Peripheral Bus

ARM ARM

ARM Architecture Reference Manual

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATB

Advanced Trace Bus

BE8

Byte Invariant Big Endian Mode

CPI

Cycles Per Instruction

CPU

Central Processing Unit

DAP

Debug Access Port

DSP

Digital Signal Processor/Digital Signal Processing

DWT

Data WatchPoint and Trace

ETM

Embedded Trace Macrocell

FPB

Flash Patch and Breakpoint

FSR

Fault Status Register

HTM

CoreSight AHB Trace Macrocell

ICE

In-Circuit Emulator

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

IRQ

Interrupt Request (normally refers to external interrupts)

ISA

Instruction Set Architecture

ISR

Interrupt Service Routine

ITM

Instrumentation Trace Macrocell

JTAG

Joint Test Action Group (a standard of test/debug interfaces)

JTAG-DP

JTAG Debug Port

LR

Link Register

LSB

Least Significant Bit

LSU

Load/Store Unit

MCU

Microcontroller Unit

MMU

Memory Management Unit

MPU

Memory Protection Unit

MSB

Most Significant Bit

MSP

Main Stack Pointer

NMI

Nonmaskable Interrupt

NVIC

Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller

OS

Operating System

PC

Program Counter

PSP

Process Stack Pointer

PPB

Private Peripheral Bus

PSR

Program Status Register

SCS

System Control Space

SIMD

Single Instruction, Multiple Data

SP, MSP, PSP

Stack Pointer, Main Stack Pointer, Process Stack Pointer

SoC

System-on-a-Chip

SP

Stack Pointer

SW

Serial-Wire

SW-DP

Serial-Wire Debug Port

SWJ-DP

Serial-Wire JTAG Debug Port

SWV

Serial-Wire Viewer (an operation mode of TPIU)

TPA

Trace Port Analyzer

TPIU

Trace Port Interface Unit

TRM

Technical Reference Manual

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