powerpc-add/src/glossary.tex

   1 % Glossary
   2
   3 % In the main documentation text I have not tagged every use of the glossary
   4 % entries below, I have tagged the first in a chapter, or first use for some
   5 % number of paragraphs.
   6
   7 % Put the definition of terms of the glossary terms in here
   8 % Try to keep in alphabetic order - for easier editing, they will
   9 % be generated (in the PDF) in alphabetic order regardless of the order below
  10
  11 % To use one do something like: \gls{PowerPC}
  12 % Note that the entries are case sensitive.
  13
  14 % Having an entry below will not make it appear in the glossary,
  15 % it will only appear if it is used, eg: \gls{PowerPC}
  16
  17 % How to use:
  18 % GlsName       The text that should be used in the document, eg: \gls{GlsName}
  19 % GlsText       The text that will be shown in the document in place of \gls{GlsName}
  20 %               GlsName and GlsText can be different but you will probably want
  21 %               to make them the same.
  22 % \newglossaryentry{GlsName}
  23 % {
  24 %   name=GlsText,
  25 %   description={
  26 %     See: \href{}{}
  27 %     }
  28 % }
  29
  30 % See:
  31 % https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Glossary
  32 % http://tug.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries/glossariesbegin.pdf
  33
  34 % An empty entry to use as a template:
  35 % \newglossaryentry{}
  36 % {
  37 %   name=,
  38 %   description={
  39 %     See: \href{}{}
  40 %     }
  41 % }
  42
  43 % BUG: the glossary entries have a '.' after them that I am not expecting.
  44
  45 % BEWARE: the documentation may need to be built more than once for all of the
  46 % entries below to appear. This seems to be if an entry is only mentioned in another
  47 % glossary entry.
  48
  49 \newglossaryentry{Binutils}
  50 {
  51   name=Binutils,
  52   description={
  53     GNU Binary Utilities is part of the toolchain used for creating and managing
  54     binary objects (compiled code).
  55     Used with \gls{gcc}.
  56     See: \href{https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/}{GNU web site}
  57     }
  58 }
  59
  60 \newglossaryentry{CPU}
  61 {
  62   name=CPU,
  63   description={
  64     Central Processing Unit.
  65     The brain of a conventional computer that executes general purpose programs.
  66     Contrast with \gls{GPU} and \gls{VPU}.
  67 %    See: \href{}{}
  68     }
  69 }
  70
  71 \newglossaryentry{CSR}
  72 {
  73   name=CSR,
  74   description={
  75      Control and Status Register.
  76      A special register that records CPU status and processing options.
  77      One important option to this project is that the special instructions
  78      that we have created will be recognised.
  79 %    See: \href{}{}
  80     }
  81 }
  82
  83 \newglossaryentry{FPGA}
  84 {
  85   name=FPGA,
  86   description={
  87     Field-programmable gate array.
  88     An integrated circuit where the circuitry can be reconfigured.
  89     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array}{Wikipedia}
  90     }
  91 }
  92
  93 \newglossaryentry{gcc}
  94 {
  95   name=gcc,
  96   description={
  97     \gls{GNU} Compiler Collection.
  98     A popular open source compiler for C (\& related), Fortran, Ada \& Go and able to generate
  99     object code for many \gls{ISA}s including \gls{PowerPC}.
 100     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection}{Wikipedia}
 101     }
 102 }
 103
 104
 105 \newglossaryentry{GNU}
 106 {
 107   name=GNU,
 108   description={
 109     The GNU project is a large collection of free software.
 110     It provides many of the core programs that are used by many \gls{Linux} distributions.
 111     See: \href{https://www.gnu.org/}{GNU website}
 112     }
 113 }
 114
 115 \newglossaryentry{GPU}
 116 {
 117   name=GPU,
 118   description={
 119     Graphics processing unit.
 120     Special purpose processor optimised for graphics and image generation,
 121     often able to run in parallel -- the same instructions on
 122     different data at the same time.
 123     Contrast with \gls{CPU} and \gls{VPU}.
 124     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit}{Wikipedia}
 125     }
 126 }
 127
 128 \newglossaryentry{IEEE754}
 129 {
 130   name=IEEE754,
 131   description={
 132     A popular standard way of representing and manipulating floating point numbers.
 133     Initiated by the  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1985.
 134     Different precisions from 16 to 256 bits are described.
 135     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754}{Wikipedia}
 136     }
 137 }
 138
 139 \newglossaryentry{ISA}
 140 {
 141   name=ISA,
 142   description={
 143     Instruction Set Architecture.
 144     An abstract model of a computer a definition that includes: registers, memory access,
 145     input/output, data types, CPU instruction set.
 146     Everything that is needed to be able to create programs to run on the machine.
 147     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture}{Wikipedia}
 148     }
 149 }
 150
 151 \newglossaryentry{JIT}
 152 {
 153   name=JIT,
 154   description={
 155     Just In Time compilation.
 156     Translate when the program runs, only when needed.
 157     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation}{Wikipedia}
 158     }
 159 }
 160
 161 \newglossaryentry{Linux}
 162 {
 163   name=Linux,
 164   description={
 165     A free kernel on which free operating systems and specialised environments are built.
 166     Linux is found all the way for small, embedded systems, to desktops, to servers
 167     and the world's biggest super computers.
 168     It runs on many \gls{ISA}s and supports a huge variety of peripheral devices.
 169     Linux was inspired by Unix and is upwards compatible with POSIX.
 170     See: \href{https://www.linuxfoundation.org/}{Linux Foundation}
 171     }
 172 }
 173
 174
 175 \newglossaryentry{LLVM}
 176 {
 177   name=LLVM,
 178   description={
 179     A compiler and related toolchain.
 180     An open source and able to compileAda, C, C++, D, Delphi, Fortran, Haskell, Julia, Objective-C, Rust, and Swift
 181     able to generate object code for many \gls{ISA}s including \gls{PowerPC}.
 182     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM}{Wikipedia}
 183     }
 184 }
 185
 186
 187 \newglossaryentry{PowerPC}
 188 {
 189   name=PowerPC,
 190   description={
 191     A \gls{RISC} \gls{ISA} created in 1991 by Apple, IBM and Motorola.
 192     The name is a backronym: Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC
 193     Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC or called POWER).
 194     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC}{Wikipedia}
 195   }
 196 }
 197
 198 \newglossaryentry{RISC}
 199 {
 200   name=RISC,
 201   description={
 202     Reduced Instruction Set Computer.
 203     A computer design philosophy that features simple but fast instructions,
 204     often with many registers.
 205     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_computer}{Wikipedia}
 206     }
 207 }
 208
 209 \newglossaryentry{RISCV}
 210 {
 211   name=RISC-V,
 212   description={
 213     An open sourced \gls{RISC} \gls{ISA} started in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley.
 214     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V}{Wikipedia}
 215     }
 216 }
 217
 218 \newglossaryentry{SoC}
 219 {
 220   name=SoC,
 221   description={
 222     System on a Chip.
 223     An integrated circuit that has (almost all) the components needed to
 224     make a fully running system.
 225     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip}{Wikipedia}
 226     }
 227 }
 228
 229 \newglossaryentry{SPARC}
 230 {
 231   name=SPARC,
 232   description={
 233     A \gls{RISC} \gls{ISA} created by Sun Microsystems.
 234     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC}{Wikipedia}
 235     }
 236 }
 237
 238 \newglossaryentry{SupervisorMode}
 239 {
 240   name=Supervisor Mode,
 241   description={
 242     A privileged CPU state where the program can execute instructions or otherwise
 243     do things that a non-privileged program would not be allowed to do.
 244 %    See: \href{}{}
 245     }
 246 }
 247
 248 \newglossaryentry{VPU}
 249 {
 250   name=VPU,
 251   description={
 252     Video Processing Unit and Visual Processing Unit and Vector Processing Unit
 253     Contrast with \gls{CPU} and \gls{GPU}.
 254 %    See: \href{}{}
 255     }
 256 }
 257
 258 \newglossaryentry{Z80}
 259 {
 260   name=Zilog Z80,
 261   description={
 262     An 8 bit processor produced by the Zilog Inc in 1986.
 263     It is compatible with the Intel 8080 processor.
 264     See: \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z80}{Wikiedia}
 265     }
 266 }
 267
 268 % Other entries to consider:
 269 % emulator
 270 % namespace
 271 % MSB
 272 % PCR
 273 % ISANS
 274 % SIE
 275 % MISA
 276 % WARL
 277 % WLRL