Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/amdgpu-glossary.rst

===============
AMDGPU Glossary
===============

Here you can find some generic acronyms used in the amdgpu driver. Notice that
we have a dedicated glossary for Display Core at
'Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/dc-glossary.rst'.

.. glossary::

    active_cu_number
      The number of CUs that are active on the system.  The number of active
      CUs may be less than SE * SH * CU depending on the board configuration.

    CP
      Command Processor

    CPLIB
      Content Protection Library

    CU
      Compute Unit

    DFS
      Digital Frequency Synthesizer

    ECP
      Enhanced Content Protection

    EOP
      End Of Pipe/Pipeline

    GC
      Graphics and Compute

    GMC
      Graphic Memory Controller

    IH
      Interrupt Handler

    HQD
      Hardware Queue Descriptor

    IB
      Indirect Buffer

    IP
        Intellectual Property blocks

    KCQ
      Kernel Compute Queue

    KGQ
      Kernel Graphics Queue

    KIQ
      Kernel Interface Queue

    MEC
      MicroEngine Compute

    MES
      MicroEngine Scheduler

    MMHUB
      Multi-Media HUB

    MQD
      Memory Queue Descriptor

    PPLib
      PowerPlay Library - PowerPlay is the power management component.

    PSP
        Platform Security Processor

    RLC
      RunList Controller

    SDMA
      System DMA

    SE
      Shader Engine

    SH
      SHader array

    SMU
      System Management Unit

    SS
      Spread Spectrum

    VCE
      Video Compression Engine

    VCN
      Video Codec Next