Glossary

American National Standards Institute: A private, non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standards and conformity assessment system.

Boot Mode Header: A programmable structure in UCB that stores the start address of the user code.

Central processing unit: A component of a computer system that controls the interpretation and execution of instructions.

Data Scratchpad RAM, allows the CPU to access data faster compared to the other RAMs and Flashes

Frequently asked questions

Floating-point unit: A component of a computer system that carries out operations on floating-point numbers.

Graphical user interface

Integrated development environment: A software for building applications that combines common developer tools into a single graphical user interface (GUI).

Load memory address: A loadable memory address specifying where the section is to be loaded.

Microcontroller: An integrated circuit designed to govern a specific operation in an embedded system.

Program Scratchpad RAM, allows the CPU to access code faster compared to the other RAMs and Flashes

Random Access Memory

See PSPR

A block of the microcontroller memory that stores the system configuration settings.

Virtual memory address: The address the section will have when the output file is run.