Commit d38e348c authored by Federico Vaga's avatar Federico Vaga

doc: improve glossary

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga's avatarFederico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
parent 3e0331ba
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The use of digital processing to perform a wide variety of signal
processing operations.
CPU-Core
It is a soft-CPU in Mock Turtle
Embedded System
It is an autonomus system made of software, hardware (and gateware),
implementing dedicated functions
End-Point
It is a gateware core connected to a Mock Turtle RMQ that provides
connection to an external network.
Firmware
It is an embedded software system running on the Mock Turtle soft-cpu.
It is an embedded software system running on the Mock Turtle cpu-core.
Gateware
It is a bitstream which configures an FPGA, or the HDL sources
......@@ -33,11 +40,11 @@ Glossary
It is the system the hosts the hardware in use.
Host Application
It is an user space program.
It is an user space program running on the host system.
HMQ
Host Message Queue
It is a message queue that connects the Mock Turtle to the host system.
It is a message queue that connects Mock Turtle to the host system.
MQ
Message Queue
......@@ -63,7 +70,7 @@ Glossary
It is an HDL implementation of a CPU running on an FPGA.
MQ Entry
TODO
It is a single element in the MQ.
User Space
It is a software running on the host and it is not in kernel mode.
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