Glossary of terms and abbreviations

SSE-200 platform

MPC
Memory Protection Controller

Bus slave-side security controller for memory regions.

PPC
Peripheral Protection Controller

Bus slave-side security controller for peripheral access.

v8M-specific

S/NS
Secure/Non-secure

The separation provided by TrustZone hardware components in the system.

SAU
Secure Attribution Unit

Hardware component providing isolation between Secure, Non-secure Callable and Non-secure addresses.

M-class Generic

AAPCS
ARM Architecture Procedure Call Standard

The AAPCS defines how subroutines can be separately written, separately compiled, and separately assembled to work together. It describes a contract between a calling routine and a called routine

MPU
Memory Protection Unit

Hardware component providing privilege control.

SVC
SuperVisor Call

ARMv7M assembly instruction to call a privileged handler function

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