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Here be the glossary
=== (In Alphabetical Order, Descending) ===
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
!  Acronyms
!  Full Name
!  Notes
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| [[AM_services|AM]]
| Applet Manager
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| [[APM_services|APM]]
| Applet Profile Manager
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| [[BCAT_services|BCAT]]
| Background Content Asymmetric synchronized delivery and Transmission
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| [[BCT|BCT]]
| Boot Configuration Table
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| [[BNVIB|BNVIB]]
| Binary NX Vibration
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| [[BPC_services|BPC]]
| Board Power Control Manager
| This is related to the [[PCV_services#bpc|PCV Services]].
|-
| DMA
| Direct Memory Access
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|-
| [[EMMC_pinout|EMMC pinout]]
| Embedded Multi-Media Controller pinout
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|-
| [[Eupld_services|Eupld]]
| Error upload services
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| [[ExeFS|ExeFS]]
| Executable File System
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|-
| [[Falcon|Falcon]]
| A microprocessor used in various Tegra specific engines like TSEC, NVDEC, VIC, etc.
| See [http://envytools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hw/falcon/intro.html the manual] for more information.
|-
| [[Flog|Flog]]
| NES Golf, spelled backwards
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|-
| GMMU
| Graphics Memory Management Unit
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|-
| [[GRC_services|GRC]]
| Game Recording services
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| [[HID_services|HID]]
| Human Interface Device services
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| [[Homebrew_ABI|Homebrew ABI]]
| Homebrew Application Binary Interface
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|-
| HOVI
| HOrizon/nVIdia
| The NVidia/Nintendo team codename that works on the [[TSEC_Firmware|TSEC Firmware]]
|-
| [[IMKV|IMKV]]
| IM Key Value databases found in FS and NCM savedata archives
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|-
| [[INI1|INI1]]
| Part of the [[Package2|Package2]] section containing built-in system modules
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|-
| [[IPC_Marshalling|IPC Marshalling]]
| Inter-Process Communication Marshalling
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|-
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_request_(PC_architecture) IRQ]
| Interrupt Request
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|-
| [[Jpegdec_services|Jpegdec]]
| Refactored sysmodule for handling all JPEG decoding associated with capture services
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|-
| [[LAN_Adapter|LAN Adapter]]
| Local area network adapter
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|-
| [[LDN_services|LDN]]
| Local device network services
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|-
| [[Manu_Services|Manu]]
| Manufacturing Services
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|-
| [[NAX0|NAX0]]
| Nintendo AES XTS file system / file format
| Long form name is known as the Advanced Encryption Standard XEX-based tweaked-codebook mode with ciphertext stealing file system / file format
|-
| [[NCA_Format|NCA]]
| Nintendo Content Archive
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|-
| NSP
| Nintendo Submission Package
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| [[NCM_services|NCM]]
| Nintendo Content Management services
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| [[NIM_services|NIM]]
| Network Install Manager services
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| [[NPDM|NPDM]]
| Nintendo Program Descriptor Metadata
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|-
| NRO
| Nintendo Relocatable Object
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|-
| [[NSO|NSO]]
| Main executable format
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|-
| [[NS_Services|NS]]
| Nintendo Shell services
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|-
| [[NV_services|NV]]
| Customized NVIDIA driver
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|-
| [[Nvnflinger_services|Nvnflinger]]
| Responsible for mediating the communication between [[Display_services|vi]] and [[NV_services|nvservices]].
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|-
| [[AM_services#omm|OMM]]
| Operation Mode Manager, responsible for arbitrating the operation changes between docked and handheld modes
| See [[AM_services|AM Services]] for more information.
|-
| [[PCIe_services|PCIe]]
| Peripheral Component Interconnect Express services
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| [[PCV_services|PCV]]
| Power Control / Voltage services
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| [[Package1|PK11]]
| Encrypted binary stored in [[Package1]].
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| [[Package2|PK21]]
| Contains the Switch kernel and the built-in system modules
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| PMC
| Power Management Controller
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| [[SD_Filesystem|SD File System]]
| Secure Digital File System
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| Secmon
| Secure Monitor
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| [[Secure_RNG_services|Secure RNG]]
| Also known as the [[SPL_services|SPL Services]]
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| [[Services_API|Services API]]
| Services application programming interface
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| [[SMC|SMC]]
| Secure Monitor Calls
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| [[SPL_services|SPL]]
| Secure Platform Services
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| [[SSL_services|SSL]]
| Secure Sockets Layer services
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| [[SVC|SVC]]
| Supervisor Call instruction
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| [[TMA_services|TMA]]
| Target Manager
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| [[TSEC|TSEC]]
| Tegra Security Co-processor
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| [[Joy-Con_Firmware|Ukyo]]
| Internal name for the Joy-Con firmware.
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| [[XCI|XCI]]
| Nintendo Switch Gamecard Format
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