46 Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations
| Acronyms | Abbreviations | 
|---|---|
| AC | Analog Comparator | 
| ADC | Analog-to-Digital Converter | 
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard | 
| AGC | Automatic Gain Control | 
| AHB | Advanced High-Speed Bus | 
| Apple® NCS | Apple Notification Center Service | 
| AON | Always ON | 
| APB | Advanced Peripheral Bus | 
| API | Application Programming Interface | 
| Arb | Arbiter | 
| BFM | Boot Flash Memory | 
| BG | Bandgap | 
| Bluetooth® LE | Bluetooth Low Energy | 
| BOD | Brown-out Detect | 
| BOM | Bill of Material | 
| BOR | Brown-out Reset | 
| Bluetooth QTF | Bluetooth Qualification Test Facility | 
| CCL | Configurable Custom Logic | 
| CDM | Charged Device Model | 
| CFG | System Configuration and Register Locking | 
| CFGCON | Configuration Control | 
| CLDO | Core Low Dropout Regulator | 
| CLK | Clock | 
| CM | Configuration Mismatch Reset | 
| CM4CPU | Cortex M4F Processor | 
| CMCC | Cortex M Cache Controller | 
| CMR | Configuration Mismatch Reset | 
| CN | Change Notification | 
| CNCON | Change Notice Control | 
| CNEN | Change Notice Enable | 
| CNF | Change Notice Flag | 
| CNPDE | Change Notice Pull-down Enable | 
| CNPUE | Change Notice Pull-up Enable | 
| CNSTAT | Change Notice Status | 
| CP | Charge Pump | 
| CPU | Central Processing Unit | 
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check | 
| CRM | Continuous Read Mode | 
| CoreSight™ ROM | CoreSight ROM | 
| CRU | Clock and Reset Unit | 
| CS | Chip Select | 
| CSD | Controlled Switching Device | 
| CVD | Capacitive Voltage Divider | 
| DAC | Digital-to-Analog Converter  | 
| DAP | Debug Access Port | 
| DCC | Debug Communication Channel | 
| DDR | Double Data Rate | 
| DED | Double-bit Error Detected  | 
| DFE | Digital Front-End | 
| DMAC | Direct Memory Access Controller | 
| DMA RD | DMA-Read | 
| DMA WR | DMA-Read | 
| DMT | Deadman Timer | 
| DMTCON | Deadman Timer Control | 
| DMTEN | Deadman Timer Enable | 
| DMTR | Deadman Timer Reset | 
| DSCTRL | Deep Sleep System Controller | 
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor | 
| DSU | Device Service Unit | 
| DSWDT | Deep Sleep WDT | 
| DTI | Dead-Time Insertion | 
| ECC | Error Correction Code | 
| ECDH | Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman encryption | 
| EIC | External Interrupt Controller | 
| EOC | End-Of-Convert | 
| EOS | Electrical Overstress | 
| ERR | Error | 
| ESD | Electrostatic Discharge | 
| ETB | Embedded Trace Buffer | 
| ETM | Embedded Trace Module | 
| EVSYS | Event System Interface | 
| FC | Flash Controller | 
| FCS | Frame Check Sequence | 
| FEM | Front-End Module | 
| FPB | Flash Patch and Breakpoint Unit | 
| FPU | Floating Point Unit | 
| FRC | Fast RC Oscillator | 
| FRCDIV | FRC Divider | 
| FREQM | Frequency Meter | 
| FSCM | Fail-Safe Clock Monitor | 
| FSM | Finite State Machine | 
| GATT | Generic Attribute Profile (Bluetooth) | 
| GCLK | Generic Clock Controller | 
| GCM | Galois Counter Mode | 
| GND | Ground | 
| GPIO | General Purpose I/O | 
| HBM | Human Body Model | 
| HCI | Host Controller Interface | 
| I2C | Inter-Integrated Circuit | 
| ICM | Integrity Check Module | 
| IoT | Internet of Things | 
| IRQ | Interrupt Request | 
| ITM | Instrumentation Trace Macrocell | 
| LDO | Low Dropout Regulator | 
| LE | Low-Energy | 
| LGA | Land Grid Array | 
| LIN | Local Interconnect Network | 
| LNA | Low-Noise Amplifier | 
| LO | Local Oscillator | 
| LPCLK | Low Power Clock Generation | 
| LPRC | Low Power RC Oscillator | 
| LUT | Each Look-Up Table | 
| LVD | Low-Voltage Detect | 
| MCLRF | Master Clear Filter | 
| MCS | Master Clock Switch | 
| MCU | Microcontroller Unit | 
| MFRQ | Match Frequency | 
| MLDO | Main LDO | 
| MPU | Memory Protection Unit | 
| NDA | Non-Disclosure Agreement | 
| NFRQ | Normal Frequency | 
| NMCLR | External Reset | 
| NMI | Non-Maskable Interrupt | 
| NMITR | NMI Time-out Reset | 
| NPWM | Normal Pulse-Width Modulation | 
| NVIC | Nested Vector Interrupt Controller | 
| NVM | Non-Volatile Memory | 
| NVMOP | Non-Volatile Memory Operation | 
| OCD | On-Chip Debug | 
| OTA | Over-The-Air | 
| OTF | On-The-Fly | 
| OTMX | Output Matrix | 
| OTP | One Time Programmable | 
| PA | Power Amplifier | 
| PAC | Peripheral Access Controller | 
| PCHE | Prefetch Cache | 
| PFM | Program Flash Memory | 
| PHY | Physical Layer | 
| PLL | Phase-Locked Loop | 
| PMD | Peripheral Module Disable | 
| PMU | Power Management Unit | 
| POR | Power-on Reset | 
| POSC | Primary Crystal Oscillator | 
| PPS | Peripheral Pin Select | 
| PPW | Period and Pulse-Width | 
| PSDU | PLCP Service Data Unit | 
| PSM | Pulse Skipping Mode | 
| PUKCC | Public Key Cryptography Controller | 
| PUKCL | Public Key Cryptography Library | 
| PWM | Pulse Width Modulation | 
| QoS | Quality of Service | 
| QSPI | Quad I/O Serial Peripheral Interface | 
| QSPI | Quad SPI interface | 
| RAMECC | RAM Error Correction Code | 
| RCON | Reset Control | 
| REG | Register | 
| RF | Radio Frequency | 
| RFFE | RF Front-End | 
| RoT | Root of Trust | 
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call | 
| RSSI | Receive Signal Strength Indication | 
| RTC | Real-Time Counter | 
| RTCC | Real-Time Clock Calender | 
| RTOS | Real-Time Operating System | 
| RTSP | Run-Time Self Programming | 
| RX | Receive | 
| RXC | Receive Complete | 
| SEC | Single-bit Error Corrected | 
| SERCOM | Serial Communication Interface | 
| SERCOM I2C | SERCOM Inter-Integrated Circuit | 
| SFD | Start Frame Delimiter (Zigbee®) | 
| SFR | Special Function Register | 
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm | 
| SMBus™ | System Management Bus | 
| SMD | Surface Mount Device | 
| SoC | System-on-Chip | 
| SOSC | Secondary Crystal Oscillator | 
| SPI | Serial Peripheral Interface | 
| SRCON | Slew Rate Control | 
| SSL | SPI Select Low | 
| SWD | Serial Wire Debug | 
| SWR | Software Reset | 
| SWV | Serial Wire Viewer | 
| Synth | Synthesizer | 
| SYSRST | System Reset | 
| TC | Timer Counter | 
| TCC | Timer Counter Control | 
| TCM | Tightly Coupled Memory | 
| TPIU | Trace Port Interface Unit | 
| TRNG | True Random Number Generator | 
| TRX | Transmit/Receive | 
| TX | Transmit | 
| TXC | Transmit Complete | 
| UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter | 
| USART | Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter | 
| VGA | Variable Gain Amplifier | 
| WDT | Watchdog Timer | 
| WDTO | Watchdog Time-Out Reset | 
| WDTR | Watchdog Timer Reset | 
| XDS | Extreme Deep Sleep | 
| xIP | Execute-In-Place | 
| XTAL | Crystal Oscillator | 
| ZPBOR | Zero-Power BOR | 
