Glossary - Qualcomm Dragonwing Documentation

Acronym/Term	Description
AI	Artificial Intelligence
ANN	Android Neural Network
API	Application Programming Interface
ASR	Automatic Speech Recognition
BE	Back End
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CSV	Comma-Separated Value
DL	Deep Learning
DLC	Deep Learning Container
DSP	Digital Signal Processor
GenAI	Generative AI
GPU	Graphics Processing Unit
HMX	Hexagon Matrix Extensions
HTA	Hexagon Tensor Accelerator
HTP	Hexagon Tensor Processor
IOT	Internet Of Things
Llama.cpp	C/C++ library and CLI for running LLMs and VLMs locally on CPU/GPU using quantized GGUF models
LLM	Large Language Model
ML	Machine Learning
NDK	Native Development Kit
NN	Neural Network
ONNX	Open Neural Network Exchange
OpenCL	Open Computing Language
PD	Process Domain
PPA	Personal Package Archive
QNN	Qualcomm Neural Network (a synonym for Qualcomm® AI Engine Direct)
QSML	Qualcomm Snapdragon Math Libraries
QTI	Qualcomm Technologies Incorporated
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
SDK	Software Development Kit
SNPE	Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (a synonym for Qualcomm® Neural Processing SDK)
T2T	Text-to-Text
TF	Tensorflow
TTS	Text-to-Speech
UDO	User Defined Operations
ViT	Vision Transformer
VLM	Vision-Language Model
Voice AI SDK	Qualcomm’s on-device automatic speech recognition engine (VoiceAI ASR) that runs on the NPU
VTCM	Very Tightly Coupled Memory
XML	Extensible Markup Language
WSL	Windows Subsystem for Linux