| Acronyms
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Full Name
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Notes
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| AM
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Applet Manager
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| APM
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Applet Profile Manager
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| BCAT
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Background Content Asymmetric synchronized delivery and Transmission
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| BCT
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Boot Configuration Table
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| BNVIB
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Binary NX Vibration
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| BPC
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Board Power Control Manager
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This is related to the PCV Services.
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| EMMC pinout
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Embedded Multi-Media Controller pinout
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| Eupld
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Error upload services
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| ExeFS
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Executable File System
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| Falcon
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A microprocessor used in various Tegra specific engines like TSEC, NVDEC, VIC, etc.
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See the manual for more information.
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| Flog
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NES Golf, spelled backwards
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| GRC
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Game Recording services
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| HID
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Human Interface Device services
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| Homebrew ABI
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Homebrew Application Binary Interface
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| IMKV
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IM Key Value databases found in FS and NCM savedata archives
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| INI1
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Part of the Package2 section containing built-in system modules
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| IPC Marshalling
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Inter-Process Communication Marshalling
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| Jpegdec
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Refactored sysmodule for handling all JPEG decoding associated with capture services
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| LAN Adapter
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Local access network adapter
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| LDN
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Local device network services
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| NAX0
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Nintendo AES XTS file system / file format
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Long form name is known as the Advanced Encryption Standard XEX-based tweaked-codebook mode with ciphertext stealing file system / file format
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| NCA
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Nintendo Content Archive
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| NCM
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Nintendo Content Management services
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| NIM
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Network Install Manager services
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| NPDM
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Nintendo Switch equivalent of the Nintendo 3DS ex-header
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See the 3DS ex-header for more information.
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| NSO
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Main executable format
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| NS
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Nintendo Shell services
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| NS System Flaws
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Flaws which are used to execute unofficial code (homebrew) on the Nintendo Switch
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Alternate name is Switch System Flaws
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| NV
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Customized NVIDIA driver
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| Nvnflinger
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Responsible for mediating the communication between vi and nvservices.
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| OMM
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Operation Mode Manager, responsible for arbitrating the operation changes between docked and handheld modes
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See AM Services for more information.
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| PCIe
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Peripheral Component Interconnect Express services
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| PCV
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Power Control / Voltage services
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| PK11
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Contains the first Nintendo Switch bootloader to run under the NVIDIA boot processor
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| PK21
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Contains the Switch kernel and the built-in system modules
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| SD File System
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Secure Digital File System
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| SMC
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Secure Monitor Calls
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| SPL
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Security Processor Liaison
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| SSL
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Secure Sockets Layer services
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| SVC
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Supervisor Call instruction
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| Secure RNG
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Also known as the SPL Services
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| Services API
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Services application programming interface
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| TMA
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Target Manager
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| TSEC
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Tegra Security Co-processor
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| Ukyo
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Internal name for the Joy-Con firmware.
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| XCI
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Nintendo Switch Gamecard Format
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