The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M3

| 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 |