2. Glossary

AXI

Advanced eXtensible Interface

BAR

Base Address Register

CDC

Clock Domain Crossing

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

DMA

Direct Memory Access

FPGA

Field-Programmable Gate Array

I2C

Inter-Intergrated Circuit

JTAG

Joint Test Action Group

LFSR

Linear Feedback Shift Register

MAC

Media Access Control(ler)

MSI

Message-Signaled Interrupt

NIC

Network Interface Controller

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCIe

PCI Express

PHY

PHYsical layer (interface)

PRBS

Pseudorandom Binary Sequence

PTP

Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588)

RSS

Receive Side Scaling

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter