Glossary
ADC
Analog-to-Digital Converter.
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard.
Airgapped
Isolated from the surrounding environment, particularly from networks or the operating system.
AON
Always On.
ASM
Assembly code.
Attestation
The process of a device taking some measurement and checking it matches what is expected.
Baud
Unit of measurement for “symbols per second” where symbols are some unit being communicated over a channel.
Often abbreviated to Bd, kBd (1000 Bd), MBd (1000 kBd), and GBd (1000 MBd).
BFV
Boot Fault Value.
CIP
Comportable (hardware) Intellectual Property.
Comportable
See the comportability specification.
CP
Circuit Probe.
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check.
CSR
Control/Status Register.
CSRNG
Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generator.
CTAP
Client to Authenticator Protocol.
A protocol for authentication devices to communicate with a host computer.
CW310
ChipWhisperer CW310 “Bergen” FPGA board.
CW340
ChipWhisperer CW340 “Luna” FPGA baseboard.
Darjeeling
A work-in-progress integrated OpenTitan top level.
DD
Digital Design.
DIF
Device Interface Function.
DV
Design Verification.
dvsim
Design verification simulator tool.
E2E
End-to-End.
Earl Grey
The first discrete OpenTitan top level. See Earl Grey for a the full specification.
EDA
Electronic Design Automation.
EDN
Entropy Distribution Network.
ePIC
Embedded Position Independent Code.
ePMP
Enhanced Physical Memory Protection.
A RISC-V extension to the physical memory protection part of the RISC-V privileged architecture specification. Also known as “Smepmp”.
FI
Fault Injection.
FIDO2
Fast Identity Online version 2.
A collection of protocol specifications for authenticating a user with a device or server.
FIPS
Federal Information Process Standards.
Flash
A type of non-volatile reprogrammable memory.
FPGA
Field Programmable Gate Array.
FPV
Formal Property Verification.
FT
Final Test.
GCM
Galois/Counter Mode.
GF2
Galois Field of order 2.
GPIO
General-Purpose Input/Output.
HDL
Hardware Description Language.
HMAC
Hash-based Message Authentication Code.
HSM
Hardware Security Module.
HyperDebug
A custom OpenTitan development harness for testing and debugging deployments on CW310 and CW340 FPGA boards.
I2C
Inter-Integrated Circuit.
Ibex
The 32-bit RISC-V core used in OpenTitan chips.
IP
Intellectual Property.
IRQ
Interrupt.
IV
Initialisation vector.
KMAC
Keccak Message Authentication Code.
LC
Life-Cycle (controller).
LCV
Life Cycle Value.
Mask ROM
Read-Only Memory encoded into the “mask” used to fabricate silicon.
MCU
Microcontroller Unit.
Mux
Multiplexer.
Netlist
A list of connections between nodes of a circuit.
NMI
Non-Maskable Interrupt.
OTBN
OpenTitan Big Number accelerator - a RISC-V-like programmable coprocessor for asymmetric cryptographic algorithms.
OTP
One-Time Programmable (memory).
PIC
Position-Independent Code.
Pinmux
Pin Multiplexer.
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure.
PLIC
Platform Level Interrupt Controller.
PMP
Physical Memory Protection.
POR
Power-On Reset.
PQC
Post-Quantum Cryptography.
PRNG
Pseudorandom Number Generator.
PWM
Pulse-Width Modulation.
RAM
Random-Access Memory.
RFC
Request For Comments.
RISC-V
The open source instruction set architecture used for OpenTitan cores.
RNG
Random Number Generator.
ROM
Read-Only Memory.
RoT
Root of Trust.
RTL
Register-Transfer Level.
RV DM
RISC-V Debug Module.
SCA
Side-Channel Analysis.
SHA
Secure Hash Algorithms.
Silicon
The semiconductor material that most microchips are made from.
Smoketest
A simple test used to check that some feature works to some degree, even if not in depth.
SoC
System on a Chip.
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface.
SRAM
Static Random-Access Memory.
Configuration Straps / Pin Straps
Externally-exposed pins used to provide early-boot configuration to OpenTitan.
TAP
Test Access Port.
Tapeout
The process of fabricating a chip.
TCB
Trusted Computing Base.
TL-UL
TileLink Uncached Lightweight (bus/crossbar).
Tock
An embedded operating system implemented in Rust.
Top(-level)
A full chip design, including all its components and external connections.
TPM
Trusted Platform Module.
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter.
VER
Version.