Glossary of Terms

AUX

Auxiliar registers in DesignWare® ARC® processors. These registers are not memory mapped and require kernel privilege and specific instructions(lr and sr) to access.

BCR

(Build Configuration Register). The DesignWare® ARC® processors is highly configurable, the corresponding features can be extracted from BCR.

DEV

Abbreviation of device

EXC

Abbreviaion of exception

INT

Abbreviation of interrupt

ISR

(Interrupt Service Routine) Also known as an interrupt handler, an ISR is a callback function whose execution is triggered by a hardware interrupt (or software interrupt instructions) and is used to handle high-priority conditions that require interrupting the current code executing on the processor.

TCF

(Tool Configuration File)