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Hardware acceleration

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graphics processing unit

specialized electronic circuit; graphics accelerator

expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals

field-programmable gate array

integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing

digital signal processor

specialized microprocessor optimized for digital signal processing in real time, mainly used for audio and/or video applications

system on a chip

type of integrated circuit; integration of the functions of a system on a chip

direct memory access

feature of computer systems

application-specific integrated circuit

chips that have been designs to do only one specific task

hardware acceleration

use of specialized computer hardware to perform some functions more efficiently than is possible in software running on a more general-purpose CPU

complex programmable logic device

type of programmable logic device

AES instruction set

extension to the x86 instruction set

network processor

microprocessor specifically targeted at the networking application domain

Bitmain Technologies Ltd., is a privately owned company headquartered in Beijing, China, that designs application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips for bitcoin mining.

A blitter is a circuit, sometimes as a coprocessor or a logic block on a microprocessor, dedicated to the rapid movement and modification of data within a computer's memory. A blitter can copy large quantities of data from one memory area to another relatively quickly, and in parallel with the CPU, while freeing up the CPU's more complex capabilities for other operations. A typical use for a blitter is the movement of a bitmap, such as windows and icons in a graphical user interface or images and backgrounds in a 2D video game.

dataflow architecture

computer architecture that lack a program counter, in which the executability and execution of instructions is solely determined based on the availability of input arguments to the instructions, with unpredictable execution order

baseband processor

device that manages radio functions in smartphones and other radio network interface devices

DirectX Video Acceleration

API for hardware video acceleration

Network On Chip

communication subsystem on an integrated circuit

data processing unit

network interface controller with integrated general-purpose programmability

Intel SHA extensions

extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture