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1. A[edit source]

A2DP
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
ABI
Application binary interface. ( In computer software, an application binary interface (ABI) describes the low-level interface between a computer program and the operating system or another program.)
ACL
Automatic current limit (LCD power improvement solution)
ADB
Android debug bridge (Android specific)
ADBD
Android debug bridge daemon (Android specific)
ADC
Analog-to-digital converter. The process of converting a sampled analog signal to a digital code that represents the amplitude of the original signal sample.
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
AF
GPIO alternate function
AHB
Advanced High-performance Bus
AI
Artificial Intelligence
AIDL
Android Interface Definition Language (see https://developer.android.com/guide/components/aidl)
aka
also known as
ALSA
Advanced Linux sound architecture
AOSP
Android Open Source Project
APB
Advanced Peripheral Bus
API
Application programming interface
APT
Advanced Package Tool (see https://wiki.debian.org/Apt)
Arm®
Arm® is a registered trademark of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere. Arm logo.png
Arm
Arm® is a registered trademark of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere. Arm logo.png
ARP
Protocol used by the Internet Protocol, specifically IPv4, to map IP network addresses to the hardware addresses used by a data link protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Resolution_Protocol)
ART
Android Runtime (see https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik)
ASoC
ALSA System on Chip
AVB
Audio Video Bridging over Ethernet (set of IEEE standards for transporting audio and other real-time content over Ethernet)
AVD
Analog Voltage Detector

2. B[edit source]

BCC
BPF compiler collection
BL1
Boot Loader stage 1
BL2
Boot Loader stage 2
BL32
Boot Loader stage 3-2
BL33
Boot Loader stage 3-3
BLE
Bluetooth Low Energy. Bluetooth LE, marketed as Bluetooth Smart is a wireless personal area network technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group aimed at novel applications in the healthcare, fitness, beacons, security, and home entertainment industries.
Compared to Classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth Smart is intended to provide considerably reduced power consumption and cost while maintaining a similar communication range. (sourcehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy)
BoardId
eval,disco (Generic term used, to complete configuration modules paths depending on used board)
BOR
Brownout reset
BSP
Board support package
BSEC
Boot and Security and OTP control
BT
BlueTooth

3. C[edit source]

CABC
Content-Adaptative Backlight Control (LCD power improvement solution)
CAB
Content-Adaptative Backlight (LCD power improvement solution)
CAN
Controller Area Network (robust bus mainly used for automotive applications)
CEC
Consumer Electronics Control (HDMI standard)
CLUT
Colour Look-Up Table
CMSIS
Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard
CNN
Convolutional Neural Network
configfs
Configuration File System (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configfs for more details)
Cortex
Cortex®
CPL
Common Public License
CPU
Central processing unit
CRC
Cyclic redundancy check calculation unit
CRYP
Cryptographic processor
CSG
Constructive Solid Geometry
CSI
Multi Speed Internal oscillator (STM32 clock source)
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (web standard)
CTS
Compatibility Test Suite (Android specific) or Clear to send (in UART context)
CV
Computer Vision

4. D[edit source]

DAC
Digital-to-analog converter (Electronic circuit that converts a binary number into a continuously varying value.)
DAI
Digital Audio Interface
DAPM
Dynamic Audio Power Management
DBI
Display Bus Interface (MIPI® Alliance standard)
DCMI
Digital Camera Memory Interface
DDB
Device Descriptor Block (MIPI® Alliance standard)
DDC
Display Data Channel (VESA standard)
DDR
Doubledata rate (memory domain)
debugfs
Debug File System (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugfs for more details)
devfs
Device File System (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file#DEVFS for more details)
DES
Data Encryption Standard
DFSDM
Digital Filter for Sigma-Delta Modulator
DFT
Techniques implemented during semiconductor development to improve device testability (Scan, BIST…).
DFU
Device Firmware Upgrade
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol for more details)
DISCO
Discovery kit
DMA
Direct Memory Access
DMA2D
Chrom-Art Accelerator™ controller (STM32 specific)
DMIC
Digital microphone
DPI
Display Pixel Interface (MIPI® Alliance standard)
DRD
Dual-Role Device (USB standard defines host and device roles. OTG controllers support both roles and can be called Dual-Role Devices controllers.)
DRI
Direct Rendering Infrastructure (Linux framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware... find more information on official DRI web site http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage)
DRM
Direct Rendering Manager (kernel module that gives direct hardware access to DRI clients, find more information on official DRI web site http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DRM)
DRP
Dual Role Port, an USB port that can operate in host or device mode
DSI
Display Serial Interface (MIPI® Alliance standard)
DT
Device Tree
DTB
Device Tree Binary (or Blob)
DTS
Device Tree Source (in software context) or Digital Temperature Sensor (in peripheral context)
DVI
Digital Visual Interface (Digital Display Working Group)
DVFS
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling

5. E[edit source]

EAL
Evaluation Assurance Level
ECC
Error Correction Capability
ECC
Elliptic curve cryptography
ECDSA
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
EDID
Extended Display Identification Data (HDMI standard)
EDP
Embedded Display Port (VESA standard). See http://www.displayport.org/ for more details
EEPROM
Electrically-erasable programmable read-only memory
EGL
Khronos Native Platform Graphics Interface (See http://www.khronos.org/egl/ for more details)
EHCI
Enhanced Host Controller Interface
ELF
Executable and linkable file
EMI
External memory interface
eMMC
former spelling for e•MMC ('e' in italic)
eMMC
Embedded Multi-Media Card
EOT
End Of Transmission (MIPI® Alliance DSI standard)
eSDK
Extensible Software development kit
ETH
Ethernet
ETM
Embedded Trace Macrocell
ETZPC
Extended TrustZone Protection Controller
EVAL
Evaluation board
EXTI
External Interrupt

6. F[edit source]

FB
Frame Buffer (could be the Kernel framebuffer linked to the display, a GPU framebuffer, an imaging framebuffer...)
FHS
File Hierarchy Standard defines by Linux Fundation
FIP
Firmware Image Package is a packaging format used by TF-A
FIT
Flattened uImage Tree is a packaging format used by U-Boot
Flash
Flash memory shortened to gain space in titles, tables and block diagrams
Flash memory
Flash memories combine high density and cost effectiveness of EPROMs with the electrical erasability of EEPROMs. For this reason, the Flash memory market is one of the most exciting areas of the semiconductor industry today and new applications requiring in system reprogramming, such as cellular telephones, automotive engine management systems, hard disk drives, PC BIOS software for Plug & Play, digital TV, set top boxes, fax and other modems, PC cards and multimedia CD-ROMs, offer the prospect of very high volume demand.
foo_driver
foo_driver could be any driver that needs to control a GPIO
FPS
Frames per second
FSBL
First Stage Boot Loader
FTR
First Time Right

7. G[edit source]

GDB
GNU dedugger, a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems
GIC
Generic Interrupt Controller
GP
Geometry Processor, used to execute Vertex Shaders (3D IP/IC specific).
GPIO
General-Purpose Input/Output (A realization of open ended transmission between devices on an embedded level. These pins available on a processor can be programmed to be used to either accept input or provide output to external devices depending on user desires and applications requirements.)
GPGPU
General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units
GPT
GUID Partition Table
GPU
Graphics Processing Units
GRALLOC
GRaphic ALLOCation HAL or library (Android specific)
GUI
Graphical User Interface

8. H[edit source]

HAL
Hardware Abstraction Layer
HDCP
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDMI standard)
HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI standard)
HDP
Hardware Debug Port
HDR
High Dynamic Range (HDMI standard)
HID
Human Interface Device (for USB, Bluetooth...)
HIDL
HAL interface definition language (see https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hidl)
HMAC
Hash-based Message Authentication Code
HPD
Hot Plug Detect
HS
High Speed (MIPI® Alliance DSI standard)
HSEM
Hardware Semaphore
HSE
High Speed External oscillator (STM32 clock source)
HSI
High Speed Internal oscillator (STM32 clock source) or High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (MIPI® Alliance standard)
HSLV
High Speed Low Voltage pin mode
HSM
Hardware security module

9. I[edit source]

I2C
Inter-Integrated Circuit (Bi-directional 2-wire bus standard for efficient inter-IC control.)
I2S
Integrated Interchip Sound

I2S (without the 2 in superscript) refers to the STMicroelectronics integrated interchip sound IP.

I420
fourcc of YUV420 planar pixel format
IDE
(Software)Integrated development/design/debugging environment
IFP
Image Formatting Pipeline
IIC
Inter-Integrated Circuit (Bi-directional 2-wire bus standard for efficient inter-IC control.)
IIO
Industrial I/O Linux subsystem
initramfs
Initial ramdisk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_ramdisk)
initrd
Initial ramdisk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_ramdisk)
IMU
Inertial Measurement Unit
IO
input/output
IoT
Internet of Things
IPC
Inter-Processor Communication
IPCC
Inter-Processor Communication Controller
IPP
Image Preprocessor Pipeline
ITM
Instruction Trace Macrocell
IWDG
Independent Watchdog

10. J[edit source]

JIT
Just-In-Time (Way of working for a given Virtual Machine)
JNI
Java Native Interface (for Android)
JTAG
debug and test protocol, named from the Joint Test Action Group that developed it

11. K[edit source]

KMS
Kernel Mode Setting


12. L[edit source]

LBA
Logical Block Addressing
LDISC
Line Discipline
LED
Light-emitting diode
LIN
Local Interconnect Network
Linux
Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
LDO
Low-dropout regulator
LL
Low layer of STM32Cube
LP
Low Power (MIPI® Alliance DSI standard)
LTDC
LCD TFT Display Controller (STM32 specific)
LPTIM
low-power timer (STM32 specific)
LSE
Low Speed External oscillator (STM32 clock source)
LSI
Low Speed Internal oscillator (STM32 clock source)

13. M[edit source]

MAC address
media access control address (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address)
MCU
Microcontroller Unit (MCUs have internal flash memory and are intended to operate with a minimum amount of external support ICs. They commonly are a self-contained, system-on-chip (SoC) designs.)
MD5
Message Digest 5
MFD
Multifunction device
microSDTM;
eg microSD card ('m' in lowcase whatever its position)
Micro-AB
Micro-AB connector/port ('M' in uppercase whatever its position)
Micro-USB
eg Micro-USB connector ('M' in uppercase whatever its position)
MIPI
Mobile Industry Processor Interface, open membership organization that includes leading companies in the mobile industry that share the objective of defining and promoting open specifications for interfaces inside mobile terminals, see MIPI® Alliance standard web site https://www.mipi.org
MMC
MultimediaCard
MMU
Memory Management Unit. (A hardware device or circuit that supports virtual memory and paging by translating virtual addresses into physical addresses.)
MPU
Microprocessor Unit
MQTT
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
MTD
Memory Technology Device

14. N[edit source]

NA
Non Applicable
NDA
Non-disclosure agreement
NFC
Near Field Communication ( is a short-range wireless standard for communication over distances up to around 10cm that will enable enhanced services for users of NFC-enabled smart phones. These could include receiving coupons from retailers upon entering a store, or sharing contacts or photos, in addition to making mobile payments and collecting data from medical monitors, smart meters or other equipment containing ST’s dual-interface EEPROM. We produce a wireless memory that can transmit and receive information from the heart of an application to a smart phone containing NFC technology. NFC is expected to become a widely used system for making payments by smart phone in the United States and it is estimated that by 2015, 30.5% (iSupply) of all handsets shipped will contain NFC technology.)
NFS
Network File System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System)
NN
Neural Network
NV12
fourcc of YUV420 semi-planar pixel format
NVIC
Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller
NVM
Non Volatile Memory, like a flash memory

15. O[edit source]

OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer
OGL
Open Graphics Library (See http://www.opengl.org/ for more details)
OHCI
Open Host Controller Interface
ONFI
Open NAND Flash interface (The ONFI working group, acronym for Open NAND Flash Interface, was founded in 2005. The group’s mission consists in creating a common industry standard for NAND Flash interfaces, to simplify integration of NAND Flash memory into consumer electronics (CE) devices and computing platforms. ST is one of the co-founder companies together with Hynix, Intel, Micron, Phison and Sony.)
OOM
Out Of Memory
OPC UA
Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture
OpenCL
Open Computing Language (See http://www.opencl.org/ for more details)
OpenGL
Open Graphics Library (See http://www.opengl.org/ for more details)
OpenGLES
Open Graphics Library for Embedded System (See http://www.khronos.org/opengles/ for more details)
OpenVG
Open Vector Graphics (See http://www.khronos.org/openvg/ for more details)
OPP
Operating Performance Point (link to voltage and frequency scaling)
OP-TEE
Open Portable Trusted Execution Environment
OS
Operating System
OSS
Open Source Software
OST
Open System Trace
OTG
USB On-The-Go (Capability/type of USB port, acting primarily as USB device, to also act as USB host. Also known as USB OTG.)
OTP
One Time Programmed

16. P[edit source]

PCB
Printed Circuit Board
PEM
Privacy Enhanced Mail (File format for storing and sending cryptographic keys, certificates, and other data)
PLB
Polygon List Builder (3D IP/IC specific)
PMIC
Power Management Integrated Circuit
PMU
Power Management Unit (in STPMIC context) or Performance Monitoring Unit (in Arm Cortex-A context)
POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface based on uniX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_terminal_interface for more details)
POT
Power Of Two (could be linked to Graphics, like in OpenGL textures)
PP
Pixel Processor, used to execute Fragment Shaders (3D IP/IC specific)
procfs
Process File System (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs for more details)
PSCI
Power State Coordination Interface
PVD
Programmable Voltage Detector
PWM
Pulse Width Modulation

17. Q[edit source]

18. R[edit source]

RAM
Random Access Memory (Early computer memories generally hadserial access. Memories where any given address can be accessed when desired were then called "random access" to distinguish them from the memories where contents can only be accessed in a fixed order. The term is used today for volatile random-acces ssemiconductor memories.)
RCC
Reset and Clock Control
REGMAP
Register map (Linux registers map abstraction API)
RMA
Return Materials Authorization
RNG
Random Number Generator
ro
Read Only
ROM
Read Only Memory
RPMsg
Remote Processor Messaging
RSE
Remote System Explorer (Eclipse Perceptive)
RTC
Real Time Clock
RTOS
Real Time Operating System
RX
Receive

19. S[edit source]

SAI
Serial Audio Interface (Mechanism used to transfer non-buffered audio data between processors and/or audio converters.)
SCL
Serial clock line
SCMI
System control and management interface
SD
Secure digital
SDA
Serial DAta line
SD card
SD memory card (https://www.sdcard.org)
SDIO
Secure digital input/output
SDIO card
SDIO is an SD-size card with extended input/output functions
SDK
Software development kit (A programming package that enables a programmer to develop applications for a specific platform.)
Serdev
Serial device bus
SFR
Special Function Registers
SGI
Software Generated Interrupt
SHA
Secure Hash Algorithm
SiP
Silicon Provider
SLC
Single-Level Cell is a kind of NAND flash
SMC
Secure Monitor Call
SMCCC
secure monitor call (SMC) calling convention
SMBus
System Management Bus
SMP
symetric multiprocessing
SOM
System-On-Module
SOT
Start Of Transmission (MIPI® Alliance DSI standard)
S/PDIF
Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format (Protocol (IEC-60958))
SP-MIN
Secure Payload minimal
SP_min
Secure Payload minimal
SP_min
Secure Payload minimal
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface
SPL
Secondary Program Loader, Also known as U-Boot SPL
SSBL
Second Stage Boot Loader
SSP
Secure secrets provisioning
STGEN
System Time Generator
ST-Link
spelling for older versions of STLink, ST in-circuit debugger and programmer for the STM8 and STM32 microcontroller families
STLink
ST in-circuit debugger and programmer for the STM8 and STM32 microcontroller families (See ST-LINK for more details)
STM
System Trace Module
STM32Series
stm32mp1
STP
System Trace Protocol (MIPI® Alliance standard specifying the protocol to carry above system traces)
SSP
Secure Secret Provisioning
SYSCFG
System Configuration
sysfs
System File System (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysfs for more details)
SYSTICK
System Tick
SWD
Serial Wire Debug
SWIM
Single Wire Interface Module (debug protocol for STM8 microcontrollers)

20. T[edit source]

TA
Trusted Application
TAF
Trusted Application Function
TAMP
Tamper
TBG
Test Byte Generator, part of DSI, used to generate - on CPU demand - a stream of byte to the DSI D-PHY. The goal is to perform basic DSI D-PHY lane check
TCG
Trusted Computing Group
TCM
Tightly Coupled Memory
TDES
Triple Data Encryption Standard
TEE
Trusted Execution Environment
termios
terminal input output structure
TF-A
Trusted Firmware for Arm Cortex-A
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol)
TPM
Trusted Platform Module
TrEQ
Transducer Equalizer
TSS
TPM Software Stack
TTY
TeleTYpewriter
TVG
Test Video Generator, part of DSI, used to generate a video stream automatically (for verification and validation task)
TX
Transmit
TZ
TrustZone®
Arm® and TrustZone® are registered trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere.
TrustZone
TrustZone®
Arm® and TrustZone® are registered trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere.
TZC
TrustZone® address space Controller for DDR
Arm® and TrustZone® are registered trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere.

21. U[edit source]

UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UDC
USB Device Controller
UI
User Interface
UMS
User-space Mode Setting
µClinux
The letters "μC" are for "microcontroller", the name is pronounced "you-see-Linux" (http://www.uclinux.org/)
UP
uniprocessor
U-Boot
Das U-Boot -- the Universal Boot Loader (see U-Boot_overview)
USART
Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USBH
USB Host (STM32 specific)
USB Type-A
USB port or connector
USB Type-C
USB port or connector
UTMI
USB 2.0 Transceiver Macrocell Interface
USB On-The-Go
Capability/type of USB port, acting primarily as USB device, to also act as USB host. Also known as USB OTG.
UUID
universally unique identifier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier)
UVC
USB Video Class

22. V[edit source]

V4L2
Video 4 Linux version 2
VCP
Virtual COM Port. ST-Link Console support
VESA
Video Electronics Standards Association
VFS
Virtual File System
VLAN
Virtual LAN. Network of computers that behave as if they are connected to the same wire even though they may actually be physically located on different segments of a LAN
VREFBUF
voltage reference buffer (STM32 specific)
VTS
Vendor Test Suite (Android specific)

23. W[edit source]

Wi-Fi
technology for wireless local area networking with devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards

24. X[edit source]

XIP
Execute In Place. Method of executing programs directly from long term storage rather than copying it into RAM (linked to NOR Flash).
XTI
Protocol specifying a way to define OST frame boundary and to support trace activation using uart channel.

25. Y[edit source]

YAVTA
Yet Another V4L2 Test Application (V4L2 standard)

26. Z[edit source]

27. 0-9[edit source]

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