Annex A Glossary - Motorola D15 Integration And Application Developers Manual

ANNEX A
Abbreviation Description
ACK Acknowledgment
ADC Analog-to-digital converter
ALC Automatic level control
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AOC Automatic output control
ASIC Application-specific integrated circuit
ATE Automatic test equipment
BABT British Approval Board – Telecommunications
BGA Ball grid array
BER Bit error rate
BNC A type of connector used with coaxial cable
bps Bits per second
BSC Base station controller (for a network)
C/R Card Reader
CCR Type of miniature RF connector
Chebyshev filter A filter with very sharp cutoff
CHRONOS Enhanced pendulum IC
CLA Cigarettte Lighter Adapter
CLK Clock
CMOS Complementary metal oxide silicon
CNTL Control
COM Communications (port)
CPU Central processing unit
CQA Customer quality assurance
CNTL Control (key)
CSA California Safety Authority
DAC Digital-to-analog converter
Data TAC'A type of Motorola data communications system
DB Decibel
DBc Decibels relative to carrier
dBm Decibels mean; levels relative to 1 mW
DCD Detailed circuit description
DCS Digital Cellular System (GSM in the 1800MHz band)
DDFTM Digital Data Fast, a technique that combines an industry-standard error-correction protocol with
two compression algorithms (V.42bis and MNP5) to provide data transfer rates up to 33,600bps
over a fixed 9,600bps channel
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