> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://dragonwingdocs.qualcomm.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Glossary

> Definitions for acronyms, tools, and terminology used throughout the Qualcomm AI/ML Developer Workflow documentation for Dragonwing IoT platforms.

| **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                                                                    |