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 '''CPU''' - Central Processing Unit. A very small pile of interconnected transistors that go off or on and process the incoming instructions requests.<br>
-'''RAM''' - Random Access Memory. It can be written to, read from and erased too.<br>
+'''RAM''' - Random Access Memory. It can be written to, read from, and erased too.<br>
 Bigger it is, better it is for the '''CPU''' and '''OS'''. And user.<br>
-'''ROM''' - Read Only Memory. It can not be written to by user or '''OS'''. Usually contains an instruction set.<br>
+'''ROM''' - Read-Only Memory. It can not be written to by the user or '''OS'''. Usually contains an instruction set.<br>
-'''BIOS''' - Basic Input Output System. When device is powered on it checks its physical integrity and various settings before it boots into '''OS'''.<br>
+'''BIOS''' - Basic Input Output System. When the device is powered on it checks its physical integrity and various settings before it boots into '''OS'''.<br>
 It can be flushed and updated for better performance and additional '''HW''' features.<br>
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 '''GNU - GPL'''  - GNU is Not Unix, General Public Licence<br>
-'''EOMA''' - Embedded Open Modular Architecture<br>
+'''FPGA'''       - simply put it is a programmable [[chip or an integrated circuithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array|chip or an integrated circuit]] designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing.
 '''RISC-V''' - '''The Free and Open RISC Instruction Set Architecture'''
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 '''CC''' - Creative Commons<br>
-'''CC-BY-SA''' - Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike License<br>
+'''CC-BY-SA''' - Creative Commons Attribution–Share-Alike License<br>
 '''ETQ''' - Excellence Through Quality<br>
 '''OLPC''' - One Laptop Per Child

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 '''RISC''' - Reduced Instruction Set Computer<br>
-'''SoC''' - System-on-the-Chip. One '''CPU''' to rule them all.<br>
+'''SoC''' - System-on-Chip. One '''CPU''' to rule them all.<br>
-'''SoM''' - System-on-a-Module. Systems on a module consists of more '''CPU''' units and are exchangable.<br>
+'''AMBA''' - '''Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture''' is a freely-available, open standard for the connection and management of functional blocks in a System-on-Chip.<br>
 Think of a card that can be plugged in or taken out.<br>

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 '''RISC-V''' - '''The Free and Open RISC Instruction Set Architecture'''
 '''RISC-V''' is a free and open '''ISA''' enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration.<br>
-'''RISC-V ISA''' delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.<br>
+'''RISC-V ISA''' delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation. That is what '''BPCD''' is all about.<br>
 '''ISA''' - Instruction Set Architecture<br>
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 '''RISC''' - Reduced Instruction Set Computer<br>
-'''SoC''' - System-on-the-Chip. One CPU to rule them all.<br>
+'''SoC''' - System-on-the-Chip. One '''CPU''' to rule them all.<br>
 '''SoM''' - System-on-a-Module. Systems on a module consists of more '''CPU''' units and are exchangable.<br>

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 '''HW''' - Hardware<br>
 '''PCD''' - Personal Computing Device, a laptop, but with added extras.<br>
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 '''RISC''' - Reduced Instruction Set Computer<br>
 '''GPIO''' - General Purpose Input Output<br>

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 '''OS''' - Operating System
 '''SW''' - Software<br>
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 '''HW''' - Hardware<br>
-'''PCD''' - Personal Computing Device, a laptop.<br>
+'''PCD''' - Personal Computing Device, a laptop, but with added extras.<br>
 '''FSL''' - A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software.<br>

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	'''OS''' - Operating System		'''OS''' - Operating System

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 '''FOSS''' - Free and Open Source Software<br>
-'''OLPC''' - One laptop Per Child<br>
+'''OLPC''' - One Laptop Per Child<br>
 '''SW''' - Software<br>

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-<big>GLOSSARY:</big>
+<big>'''GLOSSARY:'''</big>
 '''OS''' - Operating System<br>
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 '''ETQ''' - Excellence Through Quality<br>
-'''PCD''' - Personal computing Device, a laptop, but not quite.<br>
+'''PCD''' - Personal Computing Device, a laptop, but not quite.<br>
 '''EOMA''' - Embedded Open Modular Architecture<br>