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Acronyms and Definitions

The following acronyms are used throughout this document.

Acronym	Meaning
AMC	Advanced Mezzanine Card
CCS	Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio
CSL	Texas Instruments Chip Support Library
DDR	Double Data Rate
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DSP	Digital Signal Processor
DVT	Texas Instruments Data Analysis and Visualization Technology
EDMA	Enhanced Direct Memory Access
EEPROM	Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EVM	Evaluation Module, hardware platform containing the Texas Instruments DSP
HUA	High Performance Digital Signal Processor Utility Application
HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protocol
IP	Internet Protocol
IPC	Texas Instruments Inter-Processor Communication Development Kit
JTAG	Joint Test Action Group
MCSA	Texas Instruments Multi-Core System Analyzer
MCSDK	Texas Instruments Multi-Core Software Development Kit
NDK	Texas Instruments Network Development Kit (IP Stack)
NIMU	Network Interface Management Unit
PDK	Texas Instruments Programmers Development Kit
RAM	Random Access Memory
RTSC	Eclipse Real-Time Software Components
SRIO	Serial Rapid IO
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TI	Texas Instruments
UART	Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UIA	Texas Instruments Unified Instrumentation Architecture
USB	Universal Serial Bus

Note: We use the abbreviation TMS when referring to a specific TI device (processor) and the abbreviation TMD when referring to a specific platform that the processor is on. For example, TMS320C6678 refers to the C6678 DSP processor and TMDSEVM6678L refers to the actual hardware EVM that the processor is on.