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  1. ===============
  2. AMDGPU Glossary
  3. ===============
  4. Here you can find some generic acronyms used in the amdgpu driver. Notice that
  5. we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
  6. 'Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/dc-glossary.rst'.
  7. .. glossary::
  8. active_cu_number
  9. The number of CUs that are active on the system. The number of active
  10. CUs may be less than SE * SH * CU depending on the board configuration.
  11. CP
  12. Command Processor
  13. CPLIB
  14. Content Protection Library
  15. CU
  16. Compute Unit
  17. DFS
  18. Digital Frequency Synthesizer
  19. ECP
  20. Enhanced Content Protection
  21. EOP
  22. End Of Pipe/Pipeline
  23. GC
  24. Graphics and Compute
  25. GMC
  26. Graphic Memory Controller
  27. IH
  28. Interrupt Handler
  29. HQD
  30. Hardware Queue Descriptor
  31. IB
  32. Indirect Buffer
  33. IP
  34. Intellectual Property blocks
  35. KCQ
  36. Kernel Compute Queue
  37. KGQ
  38. Kernel Graphics Queue
  39. KIQ
  40. Kernel Interface Queue
  41. MEC
  42. MicroEngine Compute
  43. MES
  44. MicroEngine Scheduler
  45. MMHUB
  46. Multi-Media HUB
  47. MQD
  48. Memory Queue Descriptor
  49. PPLib
  50. PowerPlay Library - PowerPlay is the power management component.
  51. PSP
  52. Platform Security Processor
  53. RLC
  54. RunList Controller
  55. SDMA
  56. System DMA
  57. SE
  58. Shader Engine
  59. SH
  60. SHader array
  61. SMU
  62. System Management Unit
  63. SS
  64. Spread Spectrum
  65. VCE
  66. Video Compression Engine
  67. VCN
  68. Video Codec Next