| 10BASE-T | 10 Mbit/s Ethernet over twisted pair, IEEE Std 802.3™ Clause 14 |
| 10BASE-T1L | 10 Mbit/s Ethernet over long-reach single pair of conductors, IEEE Std 802.3 Clause 146 |
| 10BASE-T1S | 10 Mbit/s Ethernet over short-reach single pair of conductors, IEEE Std 802.3 Clause 147 |
| ACMA | Application Controlled Media Access |
| BIN | Bus Interface Network |
| BT | Bit Time, 100 ns for 10 Mbps Ethernet |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection |
| CSR | Control and Status Register |
| DFA | Dependent Failure Analysis |
| FMEDA | Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis |
| Host | External local system (Includes controller, application firmware, etc.) |
| IPG | Inter-packet gap time (96 BT), IEEE Std 802.3 Clause 4 |
| LDO | Low Dropout Regulator |
| MAC | Media Access Controller |
| MDI | Medium Dependent Interface |
| MII | Media Independent Interface, IEEE Std 802.3 Clause 22 |
| PCS | Physical Coding Sublayer |
| PLCA | Physical Layer Collision Avoidance, IEEE Std 802.3 Clause 148 |
| PMA | Physical Medium Attachment sublayer |
| PMD | Physical Medium Dependent sublayer |
| POR | Power-on Reset |
| RMII | Reduced Media Independent Interface |
| RS | Reconciliation Sublayer |
| SC-MII | Single Clock Media Independent Interface. This is a variant of the MII described in IEEE Std 802.3 Clause 22 in which the PHY drives a single clock to the MAC for both transmit and receive data. |
| SFD | Start-of-Frame Delimiter. This is the 4-bit value indicating the end of the
preamble and the beginning of an Ethernet
frame. |
| SMI | Serial Management Interface, also known as MII Management Interface, IEEE Std 802.3 Clause 22 |
| SQI | Signal Quality Indicator |
| SSD | Start-of-Stream Delimiter. The 5B symbol ‘H’ that is repeated twice to indicate
that the preamble of a 10BASE-T1S Ethernet packet has begun. |
| STA | Station management entity. See also “Host” |
| TSSI | Time Synchronization Service Interface, IEEE Std 802.3 Clause 90 |
