0001 ===============
0002 AMDGPU Glossary
0003 ===============
0004
0005 Here you can find some generic acronyms used in the amdgpu driver. Notice that
0006 we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
0007 'Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/dc-glossary.rst'.
0008
0009 .. glossary::
0010
0011 active_cu_number
0012 The number of CUs that are active on the system. The number of active
0013 CUs may be less than SE * SH * CU depending on the board configuration.
0014
0015 CP
0016 Command Processor
0017
0018 CPLIB
0019 Content Protection Library
0020
0021 CU
0022 Compute Unit
0023
0024 DFS
0025 Digital Frequency Synthesizer
0026
0027 ECP
0028 Enhanced Content Protection
0029
0030 EOP
0031 End Of Pipe/Pipeline
0032
0033 GC
0034 Graphics and Compute
0035
0036 GMC
0037 Graphic Memory Controller
0038
0039 IH
0040 Interrupt Handler
0041
0042 HQD
0043 Hardware Queue Descriptor
0044
0045 IB
0046 Indirect Buffer
0047
0048 IP
0049 Intellectual Property blocks
0050
0051 KCQ
0052 Kernel Compute Queue
0053
0054 KGQ
0055 Kernel Graphics Queue
0056
0057 KIQ
0058 Kernel Interface Queue
0059
0060 MEC
0061 MicroEngine Compute
0062
0063 MES
0064 MicroEngine Scheduler
0065
0066 MMHUB
0067 Multi-Media HUB
0068
0069 MQD
0070 Memory Queue Descriptor
0071
0072 PPLib
0073 PowerPlay Library - PowerPlay is the power management component.
0074
0075 PSP
0076 Platform Security Processor
0077
0078 RLC
0079 RunList Controller
0080
0081 SDMA
0082 System DMA
0083
0084 SE
0085 Shader Engine
0086
0087 SH
0088 SHader array
0089
0090 SMU
0091 System Management Unit
0092
0093 SS
0094 Spread Spectrum
0095
0096 VCE
0097 Video Compression Engine
0098
0099 VCN
0100 Video Codec Next
