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# Glossary of QMK Terms
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## ARM
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-A line of 32-bit MCU's produced by a number of companies, such as Atmel, Cypress, Kinetis, NXP, ST, and TI.
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+A line of 32-bit MCUs produced by a number of companies, such as Atmel, Cypress, Kinetis, NXP, ST, and TI.
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## AVR
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-A line of 8-bit MCU's produced by [Atmel](http://www.microchip.com/). AVR was the original platform that TMK supported.
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+A line of 8-bit MCUs produced by [Atmel](http://www.microchip.com/). AVR was the original platform that TMK supported.
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## AZERTY
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The standard Français (French) keyboard layout. Named for the first 6 keys on the keyboard.
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## Backlight
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-A generic term for lighting on a keyboard. The backlight is typically, but not always, an array of LED's that shine through keycaps and/or switches.
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+A generic term for lighting on a keyboard. The backlight is typically, but not always, an array of LEDs that shine through keycaps and/or switches.
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## Bluetooth
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A short range peer to peer wireless protocol. Most common wireless protocol for a keyboard.
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A low-cost AVR development board that is commonly used for hand-wired builds. A teensy is often chosen despite costing a few dollars more due to its halfkay bootloader, which makes flashing very simple.
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## Underlight
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-A generic term for LEDs that light the underside of the board. These LED's typically shine away from the bottom of the PCB and towards the surface the keyboard rests on.
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+A generic term for LEDs that light the underside of the board. These LEDs typically shine away from the bottom of the PCB and towards the surface the keyboard rests on.
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## Unicode
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In the larger computer world Unicode is a set of encoding schemes for representing characters in any language. As it relates to QMK it means using various OS schemes to send unicode codepoints instead of scancodes.
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