Abbreviations – BECKHOFF EtherCAT IP Core for Altera FPGAs v3.0.10 User Manual
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ABBREVIATIONS
III-XII
Slave Controller
– IP Core for Altera FPGAs
ABBREVIATIONS
µC
Microcontroller
ADR
Address
AL
Application Layer
AMBA
®
Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture from ARM
®
AXI
TM
Advanced eXtensible Interface Bus, an AMBA interconnect. Used as On-Chip-bus
BHE
Bus High Enable
CMD
Command
CS
Chip Select
DC
Distributed Clock
DL
Data Link Layer
ECAT
EtherCAT
ESI
EtherCAT Slave Information
EOF
End of Frame
ESC
EtherCAT Slave Controller
FMMU
Fieldbus Memory Management Unit
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array
GPI
General Purpose Input
GPO
General Purpose Output
HDL
Hardware Description Language
IP
Intellectual Property
IRQ
Interrupt Request
LC
Logic Cell
LE
Logic Element
MAC
Media Access Controller
MDIO
Management Data Input / Output
MI
(PHY) Management Interface
MII
Media Independent Interface
MISO
Master In
– Slave Out
MOSI
Master Out
– Slave In
PDI
Process Data Interface
PLD
Programmable Logic Device
PLL
Phase Locked Loop
RBF
Raw Binary File
RD
Read
RMII
Reduced Media Independent Interface
SM
SyncManager
SoC
System on a Chip
SOF
Start of Frame
SOPC
System on a programmable Chip
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface
VHDL
Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language
WR
Write