1.3. Acronyms
Acronyms |
Expansion | Description |
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AFU |
Accelerator Functional Unit | Hardware Accelerator implemented in FPGA logic which offloads a computational operation for an application from the CPU to improve performance. |
AF |
Accelerator Function | Compiled Hardware Accelerator image implemented in FPGA logic that accelerates an application. |
API |
Application Programming Interface | A set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software applications. |
FIM |
FPGA Interface Manager | The FPGA hardware containing the FPGA Interface Unit (FIU) and external interfaces for memory, networking, etc. The Accelerator Function (AF) interfaces with the FIM at run time. |
OPAE |
Open Programmable Acceleration Engine | The OPAE is a software framework for managing and accessing AFs. |
RoT | Root of Trust | A source that can be trusted, such as the BMC in the Intel® FPGA PAC. |
BSP | Board Support Package | A typical Intel® FPGA PAC BSP consists of software layers and a hardware project created using the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software that Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL* compiler stitches accelerator code into and compiles. The BSP resides in the AFU. |