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== Graphics ==

; [[Backgrounds|Background]]
: A grid-based layer containing a tileset, one or more tilemaps, a scroll offset and other attributes.
; CGRAM
: 256 15-bit words of memory located in the PPU that holds the palette data.
; Character
: Another word for tile.
; Nametable
: Another word for tilemap.
; Object
: Nintendo's term for [[Sprites|Sprite]].
; OAM
; [[Sprites#OAM|Object Attribute Memory]]
: 544 bytes of memory located in the PPU that holds the sprite table.
; [[Palettes|Palette]]
: A color lookup table.
; Sliver
: An 8x1 segment of a tile.
; [[Sprites|Sprite]]
: A 16-colour (4bpp) tile that can be drawn anywhere on the screen.
; [[Tiles|Tile]]
: A small square graphic.
: SNES tiles are 8x8 pixels in size and are stored in a variety of formats in VRAM.  Adjacent tiles can be combined to create larger tiles for backgrounds and sprites.
; [[Tilemaps|Tilemap]]
: A grid (in VRAM) that describe which tiles and palettes to draw for a background layer.
; [[Tilemaps#Mode_7|Mode 7 Tilemap]]
: A 128x128 grid of 8-bit tile indexes for the Mode-7 background (in VRAM).
; [[Tilemap#Format|Tilemap Entry]]
: A 16 bit word containing the tile index, flip, palette index and priority.
; PPU
; Picture Processing Unit
: Generates video output from VRAM, CGRAM and OAM memory.
; VRAM
: Video-RAM.  The SNES has 2x 32KiB Video-RAM chips (64KiB total VRAM).
: The VRAM holds [[Tiles|tile]] data, [[Tilemaps|tilemap]] data and [[offset-per-tile]] data