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Glossary
ADS
See ARM Developer Suite.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute. An organization that specifies standards for,
among other things, computer software.
API
Application Program Interface.
Architecture
The term used to identify a group of processors that have similar characteristics.
ARM Developer
Suite
A suite of applications, together with supporting documentation and examples, that
enable you to write and debug applications for the ARM family of RISC processors.
ARMulator
ARMulator is an instruction set simulator. It is a collection of modules that simulate the
instruction sets and architecture of various ARM processors.
ATPCS
ARM and Thumb Procedure Call Standard defines how registers and the stack will be
used for subroutine calls.
Big-endian
Memory organization where the least significant byte of a word is at a higher address
than the most significant byte.
Byte
A unit of memory storage consisting of eight bits.
Char
A unit of storage for a single character. ARM designs use a byte to store a single
character and an integer to store two to four characters.
Class
A C++ class involved in the image.
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