IC - Integrated circuit
ASIC - Apllication specific integrated circuit.
FPGA - Field programable gate array.
VLSI - Very large scale integration.
Chip - Generic name describing a peace of silicon that manipulates analog and\or digital signals.
Chip architecture - The structure of the chip in general form.
Chip design - The structure of the chip in specified details.
Chip designer - Generally, someone that does any of the above. Namely, someone that does chip design.
Chip desinest - this blog.
Verification - the process of verifying that the current design of a chip operates as supposed.
Verilog - Hardware design language
VHDL - Hardware design language
E - Verification language
Specman - Verification environment using E language
Gbps - Giga bit per second
Stor-and-forward - means that the data recieved is completely stored inside before transmitted.
