IDL
/ˌaɪ diː ˈɛl/
n. "Platform-agnostic interface specification language generating stubs/skeletons for RPC/CORBA/DCOM unlike VHDL RTL."
VHSIC Hardware Description Language
/ˌviː eɪtʃ diː ˈɛl/
n. "Ada-derived HDL for modeling RTL behavior and structure in ASICs and FPGAs unlike C++ SystemVerilog."
Bit Error Rate Tester
/bɜːrt/
n. "Test instrument measuring bit error ratios in high-speed serial links using known PRBS patterns."
NLP
/ˌɛn-ɛl-ˈpiː/
n. “A field of computer science and artificial intelligence focused on the interaction between computers and human language.”
NLP, short for Natural Language Processing, is a discipline that enables computers to understand, interpret, generate, and respond to human languages. It combines linguistics, machine learning, and computer science to create systems capable of tasks like language translation, sentiment analysis, text summarization, speech recognition, and chatbot interactions.
Key characteristics of NLP include:
Hypertext Markup Language
/ˈhaɪpərˌtɛkst ˈmɑːrkʌp ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
noun — “the skeleton of the web, giving structure to everything you see (and sometimes don’t) in your browser.”