ACRONYMS

ABEL

Advanced Boolean Expression Language

ADC

Analog-to-Digital Converter

AIM

Advanced Interconnect Matrix

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASSP

Application Specific Standard Product

ATE

Automatic Test Equipment

BGA

Ball Grid Array

BLVDS

Backplane Low Voltage Differential Signaling

BUFG

Global Clock Buffer

CAD

Computer Aided Design

CAN

Controller Area Network

CBT

Computer Based Training

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CE

Clock Enable

CLB

Configurable Logic Block

CLK

Clock Signal

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CPLD

Complex Programmable Logic Device

CPLD

Complex Programmable Logic Device

CSP

Chip Scale Packaging

DCI

Digitally Controlled Impedance

DCM

Digital Clock Manager

DCM

Digital Control Management

DES

Data Encryption Standard

DRAM

Dynamic Random Access Memory

DRC

Design Rule Checker

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSP

Digital Signal Processor

DTV

Digital Television

ECS

Schematic Editor

EDA

Electronic Design Automation

EDIF

Electronic Digital Interchange Format

EMI

Electromagnetic Interference

EPROM

Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

eSP

emerging Standards and Protocols

FAT

File Allocation Table

FIFO

First In First Out

FIR

Finite Impulse Response (Filter)

FIT

Failures in Time

FLBGA

Flip Chip Ball Grid Array

fMax

Frequency Maximum

FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Array

FSM

Finite State Machine

GPS

Global Positioning System

GTL

Gunning Transceiver Logic

GTLP

Gunning Transceiver Logic Plus

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HDL

Hardware Description Language

HDTV

High Definition Television

HEX

Hexadecimal

HSTL

High Speed Transceiver Logic

I/O

Inputs and Outputs

IBIS

I/O Buffer Information Specification

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ILA

Integrated Logic Analyzer

IOB

Input Output Block

IP

Intellectual Property

IRL

Internet Reconfigurable Logic

ISE

Integrated Software Environment

ISP

In System Programming

JEDEC

Joint Electron Device Engineering Council

JTAG

Joint Test Advisory Group

LAN

Local Area Network

LEC

Logic Equivalence Checker

LMG

Logic Modeling Group

LSB

Least Significant Bit

LUT

Look Up Table