MCUXpresso Glossary

[jmreina]

Hi I am new to MCUXpresso, and LPC development now I am learning much! A great solution and experience

Is there a published glossary for vocabulary and acronyms?

[jmreina]

For example, the LPC55S06 makes reference to AHB & APB without a published glossary; took me a few minutes to uncover this!

• AHB - Advanced High Performance Bus Peripheral
• APB - Advanced Peripheral Bus

Ref:

• i.MX 6Dual/6Quad Applications Processor Reference Manual - 1.1.7 Acronyms and Abbreviations

[jmreina]

Hi @ErichStyger; for the .mex file what does MEX stand for? We are just curious

[ErichStyger · Accepted solution]

The NXP and config tool user manuals are your friend, you can read it there:

Microcontrollers EXport Configuration

[jmreina]

@ErichStyger you rock - thank you!!

[jmreina]

I reviewed the MCUXpresso Config Tools User's Guide and found your reference in sec 2.2 (p.4) -

"In this context, configuration stands for common tools settings stored in an MEX (Microcontrollers Export Configuration) file"

TI & Microship both publish their glossaries as published docs, see those links. My recommendation and idea for your team - what about a live glossary like a webpage or a live search; I think this would be a unique and high-value asset for your customers

[jmreina]

I had found this post, but nothing else. My main questions now are -

• What does LPC stand for in the LPC55xx family of processors? (e.g. LPC5506)
• What does fsl stand for in the driver content produced by MCUXpresso (e.g. fsl_gpio.h)

[ErichStyger]

'fsl' comes from Freescale,.

[ErichStyger]

About the meaning of LPC, there is a good explanation here:

https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/LPC-abbreviation/td-p/915598

[jmreina]

Thank you for these both, much appreciated Erich!! I appreciate the quick and detailed responses

I will submit a request for a published glossary and reference this ticket, thanks

-Justin

[jmreina]

nice!

[ErichStyger]

FSL was as well the Freescale stock 'name'.