dc-glossary.rst

  1===========
  2DC Glossary
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  4
  5On this page, we try to keep track of acronyms related to the display
  6component. If you do not find what you are looking for, look at the
  7'Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst'; if you cannot find it anywhere,
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  9
 10.. glossary::
 11
 12    ABM
 13      Adaptive Backlight Modulation
 14
 15    APU
 16      Accelerated Processing Unit
 17
 18    ASIC
 19      Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
 20
 21    ASSR
 22      Alternate Scrambler Seed Reset
 23
 24    AZ
 25      Azalia (HD audio DMA engine)
 26
 27    BPC
 28      Bits Per Colour/Component
 29
 30    BPP
 31      Bits Per Pixel
 32
 33    Clocks
 34      * PCLK: Pixel Clock
 35      * SYMCLK: Symbol Clock
 36      * SOCCLK: GPU Engine Clock
 37      * DISPCLK: Display Clock
 38      * DPPCLK: DPP Clock
 39      * DCFCLK: Display Controller Fabric Clock
 40      * REFCLK: Real Time Reference Clock
 41      * PPLL: Pixel PLL
 42      * FCLK: Fabric Clock
 43      * MCLK: Memory Clock
 44
 45    CRC
 46      Cyclic Redundancy Check
 47
 48    CRTC
 49      Cathode Ray Tube Controller - commonly called "Controller" - Generates
 50      raw stream of pixels, clocked at pixel clock
 51
 52    CVT
 53      Coordinated Video Timings
 54
 55    DAL
 56      Display Abstraction layer
 57
 58    DC (Software)
 59      Display Core
 60
 61    DC (Hardware)
 62      Display Controller
 63
 64    DCC
 65      Delta Colour Compression
 66
 67    DCE
 68      Display Controller Engine
 69
 70    DCHUB
 71      Display Controller HUB
 72
 73    ARB
 74      Arbiter
 75
 76    VTG
 77      Vertical Timing Generator
 78
 79    DCN
 80      Display Core Next
 81
 82    DCCG
 83      Display Clock Generator block
 84
 85    DDC
 86      Display Data Channel
 87
 88    DIO
 89      Display IO
 90
 91    DPP
 92      Display Pipes and Planes
 93
 94    DSC
 95      Display Stream Compression (Reduce the amount of bits to represent pixel
 96      count while at the same pixel clock)
 97
 98    dGPU
 99      discrete GPU
100
101    DMIF
102      Display Memory Interface
103
104    DML
105      Display Mode Library
106
107    DMCU
108      Display Micro-Controller Unit
109
110    DMCUB
111      Display Micro-Controller Unit, version B
112
113    DPCD
114      DisplayPort Configuration Data
115
116    DPM(S)
117      Display Power Management (Signaling)
118
119    DRR
120      Dynamic Refresh Rate
121
122    DWB
123      Display Writeback
124
125    FB
126      Frame Buffer
127
128    FBC
129      Frame Buffer Compression
130
131    FEC
132      Forward Error Correction
133
134    FRL
135      Fixed Rate Link
136
137    GCO
138      Graphical Controller Object
139
140    GSL
141      Global Swap Lock
142
143    iGPU
144      integrated GPU
145
146    ISR
147      Interrupt Service Request
148
149    ISV
150      Independent Software Vendor
151
152    KMD
153      Kernel Mode Driver
154
155    LB
156      Line Buffer
157
158    LFC
159      Low Framerate Compensation
160
161    LTTPR
162      Link Training Tunable Phy Repeater
163
164    LUT
165      Lookup Table
166
167    MALL
168      Memory Access at Last Level
169
170    MPC/MPCC
171      Multiple pipes and plane combine
172
173    MPO
174      Multi Plane Overlay
175
176    MST
177      Multi Stream Transport
178
179    NBP State
180      Northbridge Power State
181
182    NBIO
183      North Bridge Input/Output
184
185    ODM
186      Output Data Mapping
187
188    OPM
189      Output Protection Manager
190
191    OPP
192      Output Plane Processor
193
194    OPTC
195      Output Pipe Timing Combiner
196
197    OTG
198      Output Timing Generator
199
200    PCON
201      Power Controller
202
203    PGFSM
204      Power Gate Finite State Machine
205
206    PSR
207      Panel Self Refresh
208
209    SCL
210      Scaler
211
212    SDP
213      Scalable Data Port
214
215    SLS
216      Single Large Surface
217
218    SST
219      Single Stream Transport
220
221    TMDS
222      Transition-Minimized Differential Signaling
223
224    TMZ
225      Trusted Memory Zone
226
227    TTU
228      Time to Underflow
229
230    VRR
231      Variable Refresh Rate