RoB-in Glossary

ADSP-2106x

"SHARC" DSP from Analog Devices Inc.

AMCC

Applied Micro Circuits Coprporation -- suppliers of PCI controller (bridge) devices.

AMD

Advanced Micro Devices -- suppliers of PLD's and microprocessors.

Buffer Manager (BM)

The software that runs on the RoB-in to manage the fragment memory.

C30, C31, C32, C40, C44

DSPs from Texas Instruments (members of the TMS320Cxx family).

CMC

Common Mezzanine Card, a standard for mezzanine cards specifying size, connectors etc.

Doorbell register

A register which causes an interrupt when written to.

DSP

Digital Signal Processor

Fragment buffer

The paged managed buffer that contains the event fragments.

Free FIFO

A FIFO containing a list of free pages, written to by the buffer manager, read by the input hardware.

Index table

A table sorted by event ID which the buffer manager uses to keep track of event fragments.

PCI bus

The Peripheral Component Interconnect local bus by Intel.

PMC

PCI bus Mezzanine Card conforming to CMC spec.

PLD

Programmable Logic Device.

PLX

PLX Technology Inc. -- suppliers of PCI bridge chips etc.

RoB

Readout Buffer

RoB-in

Readout Buffer input module.

SHARC

A DSP from Analog Devices Inc. using Super Harvard ARChitecture.

Used FIFO

A FIFO containing a list of addresses at which data have been stored, written to by the input hardware, read by the buffer manager.