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4Kp30 Multi-Sensor Camera with AI Inference Solution System Example Design for Agilex™ 5 Devices - Acronyms and Terminology

Term Description
AE Auto Exposure
AI Artificial Intelligence
ANR Adaptive Noise Reduction
API Application Programming Interface
AWB Auto White Balance
AXI Advance eXtensible Interface bus protocol
BLC Black Level Correction
BLS Black Level Statistics
BPS Bits Per-Symbol
BSP Board Support Package
CCM Color Correction Matrix
CFA Color Filter Array
CNN Convolutional Neural Network
CPU Central processing unit
CSC Color Space Converter
CSR Control/Status Registers
CDC Cross Clock Domain
DDR Double Data-Rate
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMS Demosaic
DP DisplayPort
DPC Defective Pixel Correction
DRAM Dynamic RAM
DSP Digital Signal Processing
DTB Device Tree Blob
DTS Device Tree Source
EDID Extended Display Identification Data
EMIF External Memory Interface
EOTF Electrical-Optical Transfer Function
FBD Function Block Diagram
FMC FPGA Mezzanine Card
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FPS Frames Per Second
FW Firmware
GMSL Gigabit Multimedia Serial Link
GPIO General Purpose Input-Output
GUI Graphical User Interface
HDR High-Dynamic Range
HDR HLG HDR Hybrid Log Gamma
HDR PQ HDR Perceptual Quantization
HPS Hard Processor System
HPS2FPGA Hard Processor System to FPGA, usually referring to a hardened memory-mapped bridge
HS Histogram Statistics
HW Hardware
IP Intellectual Property (Hardware)
IO, I/O Input/Output
IRQ Interrupt Request
ISP Image Signal Processing
ISR Interrupt Service Routine
JTAG Joint Test Action Group (industry standard for testing)
KAS Setup tool for Yocto projects
LAN Local Area Network
LED Light Emitting Diode
LSB Least Significant Bit
LUMA Luminance
LUT Look Up Table
MDT Modular Development Toolkit
MIPI Mobile Industry Processor Interface
MP Mega Pixel
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSGDMA Modular Scatter-Gather DMA
NGPD Next Generation Platform Designer
OBR Optical Black Region
OETF Opto-Electrical Transfer Function
ONNX Open Neural Network Exchange
OOTF Opto-Optical Transfer Function
PD Usually used to refer to "Platform Designer"
PIP Pixels In Parallel
PLL Phase Locked Loop
PPI PHY Protocol Interface
QPDS Quartus® Prime Design Software
RAM Random Access Memory
RGB Red, Green, and Blue
RMS Remosaic
ROI Region Of Interest
ROM Read Only Memory
RTL Register Transfer Level
RX Receive
SD Secure Digital
SDRAM Synchronous DRAM
SFC Sequential Function Charts
SoC System-on-Chip
SSH Secure Shell
SW, S/W Software
SW1, SW2, ... Switch 1, Switch 2, …
TMO Tone Mapping Operator
TPG Test Pattern Generator
TX Transmit
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter
UHD Ultra-high definition
UI User Interface
UIO User Space I/O System
USM Unsharp Mask
VC Vignette Correction
VVP Video and Vision Processing
YOLO You Only Look Once

Acronyms and Terminology



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Last update: December 10, 2025
Created: October 6, 2025
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