Acronym Table

ADC	Analogue-to-digital converter
AHDL	Altera Hardware Description Language
API	Application Programming Interface
ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
ASIC	Application specific integrated circuit
ATA	Advanced Technology Attachment
ATL	Active Template Library
BSD	Berkeley Software Distribution
BSP	Board Support Package
CISC	Complex Instruction Set Computer
COM	Component Object Model
CPLD	Complex programmable logic device
CPU	Central Processing Unit
DAC	Digital-to-analogue converter
DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
DRAM	Dynamic random access memory
DSP	Digital Signal Processor / Processing
E²PROM	Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EEPROM	Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM	Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
FPGA	Field Programmable Gate Array
FRAM	Ferroelectric random access memory
FSM	Finite State Machine
GPIB	General Purpose Interface Bus
GPIO	General Purpose Input/Output
GPL	General Public Licence
HDD	Hard Disk Drive
HDL	Hardware Description Language
HP-IB	Hewlett-Packard Instrument Bus
HSM	Hierarchical storage management
I²C	Inter-Integrated Circuit
IDE	Integrated Drive Electronics / Integrated Development Environment
IHV	Independent Hardware Vendor
ISA	Industry Standard Architecture
ISR	Interrupt Service Routine
ISV	Independent Software Vendor
MFC	Microsoft Foundation Class Library
MMU	Memory Management Unit
MRAM	Magnetoresistive RAM
NVM	Non-volatile memory
NVRAM	Non-volatile random access memory
ODM	Original Design Manufacturer
OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturer
OS	Operating System or Open Source
OTP	One-time programmable
PAL	Programmable Array Logic
PCI	Peripheral Component Interconnect
RAM	Random Access Memory
RISC	Reduced Instruction Set Computer
ROM	Read Only Memory
RToC	Real-time computing
RTOS	Real Time Operating System
SCSI	Small Computer System Interface
SDLC	Software Development Life Cycle
SDRAM	Synchronous Dynamic random access memory
SIs	System Integrators
SMB / SMBus	System Management Bus
SOAP	Service Oriented Architecture Protocol (historic)
SPI	Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
SRAM	Static Random Access Memory
STL	Standard Template Library
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
UART	Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter
USART	Universal synchronous receiver/transmitter
USB	Universal Serial Bus
VBA	Visual Basic for Applications
VHDL	VHSIC Hardware Description Language
VHSIC	Very high speed integrated circuit
WTL	Windows Template Library