MPC8260 PowerQUICC II Family Reference Manual, Rev. 2
I-2 Freescale Semiconductor
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Tabl e I-1 contains acronyms and abbreviations that are used in this document.

TableI-1. Acronyms and Abbreviated Terms

Term Meaning
ATM Asynchronous Mode
BD Buffer descriptor
BPU Branch processing unit
COP Common on-chip processor
CP Communications processor
CPM Communications processor module
CRC Cyclic redundancy check
CTR Count register
DABR Data address breakpoint register
DAR Data address register
DEC Decrementer register
DMA Direct memory access
DPLL Digital phase-locked loop
DRAM Dynamic random access memory
DTLB Data translation lookaside buffer
EA Effective address
FCC‘ Fast communications controller
FPR Floating-point register
GPCM General-purpose chip-select machine
GPR General-purpose register
HDLC High-level data link control
I2C Inter-integrated circuit
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISDN Integrated services digital network
ITLB Instruction translation lookaside buffer
IU Integer unit
JTAG Joint Test Action Group
LRU Least recently used (cache replacement algorithm)
LSU Load/store unit
MCC Multi-channel controller