Glossary - Radyne MM200 Installation And Operation Manual

MM200 High-Speed Microwave Modem

Glossary

A Ampere
AC Alternating Current
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AIS Alarm Indication System. A signal comprised of all binary 1s.
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ATE Automatic Test Equipment
BER Bit Error Rate
BERT Bit Error Rate Test
Bit/BIT Binary Digit or Built-In Test
BITE Built-In Test Equipment
bps Bits Per Second
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
Byte 8 Binary Digits
C Celsius
CATS Computer Aided Test Software
CA/xxxx Cable Assembly
CD-ROM Compact Disk – Read Only Memory
CLK Clock
cm Centimeter
COM Common
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check. A system of error checking performed at the
transmitting and receiving stations.
CW Continuous Wave
C/N Carrier to Noise Ratio
TM086 – Rev. 4.1
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B
C
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G
G-1