APU

Application Processing Unit

boot firmware

OSPI / QSPI based initial boot software

BSP

Board Support Package – Hardware and Software artifacts needed to build and run embedded software stacks

<BSP type> disk  <binary image / image>

Pre-compiled embedded software binary disk image of the relevant BSP.

CED

Configurable Example Design

Embedded Common Platform CED

AMD Vivado™ Design Suite Configurable Example Design used as a common base for AMD EDF BSP creation. 

BSP base platform

embedded common platform (CED) configured with EDF Programable Logic payload

EDF Linux® BSP

BSP with support to boot EDF Linux® OS on the primary processing system on the target platform. Hardware artifacts typically include the AMD Vivado™ Design Suite and Vitis™ software platforms based designs and projects, Software stacks typically includes boot firmware, bootloaders, Linux kernel and root file system

EDF

AMD Embedded Development Framework

EDF Linux® disk <binary image / image>

Binary image with items to boot the system to Linux

EDF Linux® SDK (Software Development Kit)

Software Toolkit to enable development on the target or a host platforms (Cross Compile) of applications and drivers compatible with generated Linux images. Example use : Vitis™ software platforms

EDF Linux® distribution

Linux distribution on which AMD Linux images are based. Example : EDF Linux distribution

EDF Linux® OS

AMD reference Linux kernel used within the AMD Embedded Development Framework

EDF Linux® package feed

Linux package feed to allow distribution of software and hardware packaged over the air (OTA) 

Embedded software

Embedded software stack

PL

Programable Logic

RPU

Realtime Processing Unit

SHEL

Software Hardware Exchange loop   -  Flow for passing information between hardware and software tool flows.