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2 AMDGPU Glossary
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4
5 Here you can find some generic acronyms used i
6 we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core
7 'Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/dc-glossary.
8
9 .. glossary::
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11 active_cu_number
12 The number of CUs that are active on the
13 CUs may be less than SE * SH * CU depend
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15 CP
16 Command Processor
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18 CPLIB
19 Content Protection Library
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21 CU
22 Compute Unit
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24 DFS
25 Digital Frequency Synthesizer
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27 ECP
28 Enhanced Content Protection
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30 EOP
31 End Of Pipe/Pipeline
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33 GART
34 Graphics Address Remapping Table. This
35 page table used by the GPU kernel driver
36 (memory or MMIO space) into the GPU's ad
37 them. The name GART harkens back to the
38 provided an MMU that the GPU could use t
39 scattered pages for DMA. The MMU has si
40 name stuck.
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42 GC
43 Graphics and Compute
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45 GMC
46 Graphic Memory Controller
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48 GPUVM
49 GPU Virtual Memory. This is the GPU's M
50 virtual address spaces that can be in fl
51 allow the GPU to remap VRAM and system r
52 spaces for use by the GPU kernel driver
53 These provide memory protection for diff
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55 GTT
56 Graphics Translation Tables. This is a
57 which provides access to system resource
58 use by the GPU. These addresses can be m
59 table for use by the kernel driver or in
60 for application usage.
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62 IH
63 Interrupt Handler
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65 HQD
66 Hardware Queue Descriptor
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68 IB
69 Indirect Buffer
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71 IP
72 Intellectual Property blocks
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74 KCQ
75 Kernel Compute Queue
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77 KGQ
78 Kernel Graphics Queue
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80 KIQ
81 Kernel Interface Queue
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83 MEC
84 MicroEngine Compute
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86 MES
87 MicroEngine Scheduler
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89 MMHUB
90 Multi-Media HUB
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92 MQD
93 Memory Queue Descriptor
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95 PPLib
96 PowerPlay Library - PowerPlay is the pow
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98 PSP
99 Platform Security Processor
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101 RLC
102 RunList Controller
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104 SDMA
105 System DMA
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107 SE
108 Shader Engine
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110 SH
111 SHader array
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113 SMU
114 System Management Unit
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116 SS
117 Spread Spectrum
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119 VCE
120 Video Compression Engine
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122 VCN
123 Video Codec Next
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