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2DC Glossary
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4
5On this page, we try to keep track of acronyms related to the display
6component. If you do not find what you are looking for, look at the
7'Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst'; if you cannot find it anywhere,
8consider asking in the amdgfx and update this page.
9
10.. glossary::
11
12 ABM
13 Adaptive Backlight Modulation
14
15 APU
16 Accelerated Processing Unit
17
18 ASIC
19 Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
20
21 ASSR
22 Alternate Scrambler Seed Reset
23
24 AZ
25 Azalia (HD audio DMA engine)
26
27 BPC
28 Bits Per Colour/Component
29
30 BPP
31 Bits Per Pixel
32
33 Clocks
34 * PCLK: Pixel Clock
35 * SYMCLK: Symbol Clock
36 * SOCCLK: GPU Engine Clock
37 * DISPCLK: Display Clock
38 * DPPCLK: DPP Clock
39 * DCFCLK: Display Controller Fabric Clock
40 * REFCLK: Real Time Reference Clock
41 * PPLL: Pixel PLL
42 * FCLK: Fabric Clock
43 * MCLK: Memory Clock
44
45 CRC
46 Cyclic Redundancy Check
47
48 CRTC
49 Cathode Ray Tube Controller - commonly called "Controller" - Generates
50 raw stream of pixels, clocked at pixel clock
51
52 CVT
53 Coordinated Video Timings
54
55 DAL
56 Display Abstraction layer
57
58 DC (Software)
59 Display Core
60
61 DC (Hardware)
62 Display Controller
63
64 DCC
65 Delta Colour Compression
66
67 DCE
68 Display Controller Engine
69
70 DCHUB
71 Display Controller HUB
72
73 ARB
74 Arbiter
75
76 VTG
77 Vertical Timing Generator
78
79 DCN
80 Display Core Next
81
82 DCCG
83 Display Clock Generator block
84
85 DDC
86 Display Data Channel
87
88 DIO
89 Display IO
90
91 DPP
92 Display Pipes and Planes
93
94 DSC
95 Display Stream Compression (Reduce the amount of bits to represent pixel
96 count while at the same pixel clock)
97
98 dGPU
99 discrete GPU
100
101 DMIF
102 Display Memory Interface
103
104 DML
105 Display Mode Library
106
107 DMCU
108 Display Micro-Controller Unit
109
110 DMCUB
111 Display Micro-Controller Unit, version B
112
113 DPCD
114 DisplayPort Configuration Data
115
116 DPM(S)
117 Display Power Management (Signaling)
118
119 DRR
120 Dynamic Refresh Rate
121
122 DWB
123 Display Writeback
124
125 FB
126 Frame Buffer
127
128 FBC
129 Frame Buffer Compression
130
131 FEC
132 Forward Error Correction
133
134 FRL
135 Fixed Rate Link
136
137 GCO
138 Graphical Controller Object
139
140 GSL
141 Global Swap Lock
142
143 iGPU
144 integrated GPU
145
146 ISR
147 Interrupt Service Request
148
149 ISV
150 Independent Software Vendor
151
152 KMD
153 Kernel Mode Driver
154
155 LB
156 Line Buffer
157
158 LFC
159 Low Framerate Compensation
160
161 LTTPR
162 Link Training Tunable Phy Repeater
163
164 LUT
165 Lookup Table
166
167 MALL
168 Memory Access at Last Level
169
170 MPC/MPCC
171 Multiple pipes and plane combine
172
173 MPO
174 Multi Plane Overlay
175
176 MST
177 Multi Stream Transport
178
179 NBP State
180 Northbridge Power State
181
182 NBIO
183 North Bridge Input/Output
184
185 ODM
186 Output Data Mapping
187
188 OPM
189 Output Protection Manager
190
191 OPP
192 Output Plane Processor
193
194 OPTC
195 Output Pipe Timing Combiner
196
197 OTG
198 Output Timing Generator
199
200 PCON
201 Power Controller
202
203 PGFSM
204 Power Gate Finite State Machine
205
206 PSR
207 Panel Self Refresh
208
209 SCL
210 Scaler
211
212 SDP
213 Scalable Data Port
214
215 SLS
216 Single Large Surface
217
218 SST
219 Single Stream Transport
220
221 TMDS
222 Transition-Minimized Differential Signaling
223
224 TMZ
225 Trusted Memory Zone
226
227 TTU
228 Time to Underflow
229
230 VRR
231 Variable Refresh Rate