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Glossary

Advanced Peripheral Bus (APB)

A simpler bus protocol than AHB. It is designed for use with ancillary or general-purpose peripherals such as timers, interrupt controllers, UARTs, and I/O ports. Connection to the main system bus is through a system-to-peripheral bus bridge that helps to reduce system power consumption.

AHB

See Advanced High-performance Bus.

Aligned

A data item stored at an address that is divisible by the number of bytes that defines the

 

data size is said to be aligned. Aligned words and halfwords have addresses that are

 

divisible by four and two respectively. The terms word-aligned and halfword-aligned

 

therefore stipulate addresses that are divisible by four and two respectively.

AMBA

See Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture.

APB

See Advanced Peripheral Bus.

Beat

Alternative word for an individual transfer within a burst. For example, an INCR4 burst

 

comprises four beats.

 

See also Burst.

BE-8

Big-endian view of memory in a byte-invariant system.

 

See also BE-32, LE, Byte-invariant and Word-invariant.

BE-32

Big-endian view of memory in a word-invariant system.

 

See also BE-8, LE, Byte-invariant and Word-invariant.

Big-endian

Byte ordering scheme in which bytes of decreasing significance in a data word are

 

stored at increasing addresses in memory.

 

See also Little-endian and Endianness.

Big-endian memory

Memory in which:

 

a byte or halfword at a word-aligned address is the most significant byte or

 

 

halfword within the word at that address

 

a byte at a halfword-aligned address is the most significant byte within the

 

 

halfword at that address.

See also Little-endian memory.

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