ADC

Analog-to-Digital Converter

AFE

Analog Front End

ASIC

Application-Specifc Integrated Circuit

ASSP

Application-Specifc Standard Product

CCD

Charge-Coupled Device

CCLK

Processor Core Clock

CIF

Common Intermediate Format, a video display resolution

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CYMK

Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-blacK color space

D-1

Digital 1, a broadcast display format

DAC

Digital-to-Analog Converter

DCT

Discrete Cosine Transform

DDR

Double Data Rate SDRAM

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DSP

Digital Signal Processor

EMP

Embedded Media Processing

FFT

Fast Fourier Transform

FIFO

First-In, First-Out (buffer device)

FPGA

Field-Programmable Gate Array

Fps

Frames per second (video)

I/O

Input/Output

kbps, kb/s

Kilobits per second (thousands of bits per second)

kBps, kB/s

Kilobytes per second (thousands of bytes per second)

Mbps, Mb/s

Megabits per second (millions of bits per second)

MBps, MB/s

Megabytes per second (millions of bytes per second)

MCU

Microcontroller

MIPS

Millions of Instructions Per Second (MCU benchmark)

MMACS

Millions of Multiply-Accumulates per Second (DSP benchmark)

NTSC

National Television System Committee television broadcast standard

OS

Operating System

PAL

Phase Alternation Line television broadcast standard

PLL

Phase-Locked Loop

PPI

Parallel Peripheral Interface

PWM

Pulse-Width Modulation

QCIF

Quarter-CIF, a video display resolution

QVGA

Quarter-VGA, a graphics display resolution

RGB

Red-Green-Blue color space

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computer/Computing

RTC

Real-Time Clock

RTOS

Real-Time Operating System

SCLK

Processor System Clock (Peripheral Clock)

SDRAM

Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SPORT

Synchronous Serial Port

SRAM

Static Random Access Memory

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

VDSP

VisualDSP++ software development tools suite

VGA

Video Graphics Array, a graphics display resolution