diff --git a/book/glossary.tex b/book/glossary.tex
index bd43ce3..1450718 100644
--- a/book/glossary.tex
+++ b/book/glossary.tex
@@ -178,6 +178,13 @@
 		used to refer to the ability of a CPU to execute multiple 
 		instruction streams at the same time}
 }
+\newglossaryentry{ascii}
+{
+	name={ASCII},
+	description={American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
+		See \autoref{chapter:ascii}}
+}
+
 
 \newacronym{hart}{hart}{Hardware Thread}
 \newacronym{msb}{MSB}{Most Significant Bit}
@@ -186,3 +193,4 @@
 \newacronym{cpu}{CPU}{Central Processing Unit}
 \newacronym{ram}{RAM}{Random Access Memory}
 \newacronym{rom}{ROM}{Read Only Memory}
+%\newacronym{ascii}{ASCII}{American Standard Code for Information Interchange}