Acronyms and Abbreviations

Table 1. Acronyms and Abbreviations
Term Definition
APB Advanced Peripheral Bus
AXI ST Advanced eXtensible Interface Streaming
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
EOF/EOP End of Frame/End of Packet
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
IPG Inter Packet Gap or Inter Frame Gap
MAC Media Access Control
MTU Maximum Transfer Unit
PCS Physical Coding Sublayer
PHY The Physical Layer (the first and lowest layer in the seven-layer OSI model)
PLL Phase Locked Loop
RX Receiver Channel
SFD Start Frame Delimiter
SOF/SOP Start of Frame or Start of Packet
TX Transmit Channel
XGMII 10 Gigabit Media Independent Interface